Publication
Title
(Fe)male voices on stage : finding patterns in lottery rhymes of the late medieval and early modern Low Countries with and without AI
Author
Abstract
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.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Bijdragen en mededelingen betreffende de geschiedenis der Nederlanden. - 's-Gravenhage, 1969, currens
Publication
's-Gravenhage : Nederlands Historisch Genootschap , 2024
ISSN
0165-0505 [print]
2211-2898 [online]
DOI
10.51769/BMGN-LCHR.13872
Volume/pages
139 :1 (2024) , p. 4-28
ISI
001264958300002
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
Full text (open access)
UAntwerpen
Faculty/Department
Research group
Project info
A woman's lot. Women's participation in the public sphere in the late medieval and early modern Low Countries (1450-1650) by means of lottery-rhymes.
Publication type
Subject
Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Record
Identifier
Creation 26.03.2024
Last edited 25.07.2024
To cite this reference