Distant Reader - subject-divorce-freebo

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-24 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader zip2carrel process, and the input was a Zip file locally cached with the name input-file.zip. Documents in the Zip file have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

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Size

There are 14 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 414,182 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 29,584 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 92. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

may, wife, one, god, law, mr, man, will, yet, divorce, also, shall, first, now, away, much, hee, christ, husband, might, put, bee, good, many, haue, must, doth, made, therefore, cause, say, though, another, men, adultery, marriage, time, without, reason, see, vnto, case, two, doe, take, words, us, lord, make, thing

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Of diuorce for adulterie, and marrying againe that there is no sufficient warrant so to do. VVith a note in the end, that R.P. many yeeres since was answered. By Edm. Bunny Bachelour of Divinitie., A defence of the iudgment of the Reformed churches. That a man may lawfullie not onelie put awaie his wife for her adulterie, but also marrie another. / Wherin both Robert Bellarmin the Iesuites Latin treatise, and an English pamphlet of a namelesse author mainteyning the contrarie are co[n]futed by Iohn Raynolds. A taste of Bellarmins dealing in controversies of religion: how he depraveth Scriptures, misalleagthe [sic] fathers, and abuseth reasons to the perverting of the truth of God, and poisoning of his Churche with errour.., and The famous tryal in B.R. between Thomas Neale, Esq. and the late Lady Theadosia Ivy the 4th of June, 1684, before the Right Honourable the late Lord Jeffreys, lord chief justice of England, for part of Shadwell in the county of Middlesex ... together with a pamphlet heretofore writ ... by Sir Thomas Ivy ....

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

put away, lady ivy, marry another, marcellus hall, putting away, english books, early english, per annum, lords commissioners, marrie another, one flesh, man may, marrying againe, may bee, marry againe, vnto vs, books online, thomas ivie, set downe, must needs, sir charles, richard hill, one wife, putteth away, shall put, page images, may lawfully, wee may, richard glover, among vs, whosoever shall, commit adultery, many wives, creation partnership, text creation, may seeme, every one, sir william, let us, just cause, marrieth another, innocent party, commit adulterie, wee haue, iohn stepkins, might bee, committeth adulterie, may marry, second marriage, may see

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Tetrachordon: expositions upon the foure chief places in scripture, which treat of mariage, or nullities in mariage. On Gen.I.27.28. compar''d and explain''d by Gen.2.18.23.24. Deut.24.1.2. Matth.5.31.32. with Matth.19. from the 3d.v. to the 11th. I Cor.7. from the 10th to the 16th. Wherein the doctrine and discipline of divorce, as was lately publish''d, is confirm''d by explanation of scripture, by testimony of ancient fathers, of civill lawes in the primitive church, of famousest reformed divines, and lastly, by an intended act of the Parlament and Church of England in the last eyare of Edvvard the sixth. / By the former author J.M. Alimony arraign''d, or The remonstrance and humble appeal of Thomas Ivie Esq; from the high court of chancery, to His Highnes the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, &c. VVherein are set forth the unheard-of practices and villanies of lewd and defamed vvomen, in order to separate man and wife., and Helpes for discovery of the truth in point of toleration: being the judgment of that eminent scholler Tho. Cartwright, sometimes Divinity-Professor in the University of Cambridge in the reigne of Queen Elizabeth of happy memory, and then a famous non-conformist, for which through the tyranny of the Bishops he suffered exile. Wherein the power and duty of the magistrate in relation to matters of religion is discussed; as also whether the judiciall lawes given by Moses to the Jewes are abrogate by the coming of Christ. More particularly in relation to some sinnes, viz. blasphemy, adultery, &c. Occasionally handled in a controversie betweene the said publike professor T.C. and Doctor Whitgift. Here also by the way is laid downe his judgment in the case of divorce, and that the party innocent may marrie again..

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

god, wife, law, church, tcp, lord, christ, scripture, saviour, paul, man, divorce, christian, moses, estate, bee, pharises, husband, hee, gospel, doth, apostle, world, williamson, williams, treatice, text, testament, supreme, sect, sauiour, right, prince, power, pope, petition, person, papists, mrs., mother, mill, math, mat, martin, marsh, mariage, magistrate, lords, letter, lease

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be wife, and The doctrine and discipline of divorce restor''d to the good of both sexes from the bondage of canon law and other mistakes to Christian freedom, guided by the rule of charity : wherein also many places of Scripture have recover''d their long-lost meaning : seasonable to be now thought on in the reformation intended. is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

wife, man, law, divorce, time, men, marriage, husband, words, reason, cause, thing, case, others, things, adultery, l., hee, self, place, matter, mariage, wives, way, part, life, woman, nothing, doth, death, t, hath, question, scripture, word, text, end, opinion, nature, liberty, places, truth, body, againe, name, years, one, reasons, divers, person

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

is, be, was, have, are, had, were, did, said, put, being, do, made, say, see, been, take, make, marry, let, bee, know, give, haue, having, thought, found, set, read, done, has, taken, come, came, according, given, think, called, go, gave, hath, vnto, am, brought, left, prove, allowed, seeing, find, doe

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

god, mr., christ, c., l., law, lord, i., wife, hath, s., gen., ●, doe, 〉, church, mrs., wee, lady, att, moses, 〈, hee, bee, ◊, paul, haue, lease, husband, divorce, sir, stepkins, ivy, saviour, deed, ivie, thē, de, mill, marsh, adultery, f., sect, lib, bellarmin, cor, land, estate, adulterie, thomas

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

it, i, he, his, they, her, them, my, him, you, their, we, she, our, me, your, us, himself, themselves, theirs, its, thy, thee, ''em, ours, one, mine, vnto, yours, em, vp, ye, us''d, yourself, s, herself, hee, whosoever, givē, óf, vvith, thēselues, ourselves, ib, hers, wil, twelf, trāsgresse, thē, severall

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

other, such, many, same, more, good, first, great, own, much, true, former, second, least, better, common, little, whole, most, new, last, greater, lawfull, several, lawful, doth, free, saith, next, old, innocent, like, very, present, christian, best, certain, sufficient, holy, general, contrary, plain, full, able, private, third, honest, himselfe, right, due

not, so, then, also, now, away, only, more, therefore, as, yet, never, first, much, well, very, ever, most, rather, thus, there, even, out, is, therein, that, before, likewise, again, up, too, here, together, in, otherwise, far, onely, all, no, indeed, och, long, still, just, thereof, thereby, at, especially, else, already

Next steps

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