Early Modern Print and Its Environmental Conditions
What is the project about?
Our project focuses on early modern weather sermons, the weather at the time when they were published and the Bible passages that are addressed in them.
References and links
- Challenge showcase: https://litlia.github.io
- Hackathon report: https://litlia.hypotheses.org/542
- Project website: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Germanistik/LitLIA/
- Tambora project: https://www.tambora.org/index.php/site/index
What is your research question?
How does the printing of early modern weather sermons correlate with weather phenomena in the same year and the years before? Is there a specific set of Bible passages that is typical for sermons on certain weather events?
How is the project and/or case situated?
Between German Literature and Environmental History
What methods, data sets, and tools are used?
We brought an already transcribed corpus, that we try to evaluate using LLMs. To evaluate the precision of the LLMs we collect the Bible passages manually. For the information on specific environmental conditions at the same time and place of publication, we use the database Tambora. For the visualization of the usage of Bible passages we'll use Gephi.
Who is part of the team?
Marvin Asmussen, Luca Giovannini, Anne Ramin, Joana van de Löcht