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(Fe)male voices on stage : finding patterns in lottery rhymes of the late medieval and early modern Low Countries with and without AI
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Abstract
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| This article explores the patterns in lottery rhymes produced in the late medieval and early modern Low Countries, with a focus on the rhymes written by women. The lottery was a popular fundraising event in the Low Countries. Lottery rhymes, personal messages attached to the lottery tickets, provide a valuable source for historians. We collected more than 11,000 digitised short texts from five lotteries held between 1446 and 1606. We have used GysBERT, a language model of historical Dutch, to identify distinctively male and female discourses in the lottery rhymes corpus. Although the model pointed us to some interesting patterns, it also showed that lottery rhymes written by men and women do not radically differ from each other. This is consistent with insights from premodern women’s history which stresses that women worked within societal, and in this case literary, conventions, sometimes subverting them, sometimes adapting them, sometimes adopting them unchanged. |
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Language
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English
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Bijdragen en mededelingen betreffende de geschiedenis der Nederlanden. - 's-Gravenhage, 1969, currens
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Publication
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's-Gravenhage
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Nederlands Historisch Genootschap
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2024
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ISSN
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0165-0505
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2211-2898
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DOI
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10.51769/BMGN-LCHR.13872
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139
:1
(2024)
, p. 4-28
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001264958300002
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