Distant Reader - subject-ecclesiasticalLaw-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.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 17 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,938,631 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 114,037 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 87. 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:

church, god, may, one, shall, law, men, things, de, first, king, doth, yet, man, also, case, christ, made, time, will, much, therefore, bishop, good, thing, power, without, now, ecclesiastical, might, must, great, us, common, many, make, court, onely, cause, laws, haue, reason, like, two, every, bishops, tithes, saith, well, cap

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The works of Mr. Richard Hooker (that learned and judicious divine), in eight books of ecclesiastical polity compleated out of his own manuscripts, never before published : with an account of his life and death ..., Aarons rod blossoming, or, The divine ordinance of church-government vindicated so as the present Erastian controversie concerning the distinction of civill and ecclesiasticall government, excommunication, and suspension, is fully debated and discussed, from the holy scripture, from the Jewish and Christian antiquities, from the consent of latter writers, from the true nature and rights of magistracy, and from the groundlesnesse of the chief objections made against the Presbyteriall government in point of a domineering arbitrary unlimited power / by George Gillespie ..., and Repertorium canonicum, or, An abridgment of the ecclesiastical laws of this realm, consistent with the temporal wherein the most material points relating to such persons and things, as come within the cognizance thereof, are succinctly treated / by John Godolphin ....

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

ecclesiastical court, common law, must needs, jesus christ, holy ghost, canon law, lords supper, quare impedit, king henry, god doth, many things, whole church, taken away, king edward, six months, iesus christ, one thing, set downe, civil law, let us, every man, like manner, spirituall iurisdiction, take away, set forth, tells us, chief justice, every one, de jure, divine service, spiritual court, ecclesiastical jurisdiction, christian religion, pay tithes, ecclesiastical law, holy scripture, many times, common prayer, whole world, haue bene, sea apostolicke, ecclesiastical laws, si quis, modus decimandi, haue heard, early english, christian magistrate, english books, reformed churches, holy things

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A perfect guide for Protestant dissenters in case of prosecution upon any of the penal statutes made against them together with the statutes of 35 Eliz. and 22 Car. 2 at large : to which is added a post-script about ecclesiastical courts and prosecution in them. Severall grounds, reasons, arguments, and propositions, offered to the Kings most excellent Majesty, for the improvement of his revenue in the first-fruits, and tenths annexed to the petition of James, Earl of North-hampton, Leicester, viscount Hereford, Sir William Farmer, Baronet, George Carew, Esq; and the rest of the petitioners for a patent of the first-fruits and tenths, for the term of one and thirty years, at the yearly rent of threescore thousand pounds., and Ecclesiastical cases relating to the duties and rights of the parochial clergy stated and resolved according to the principles of conscience and law / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Edward, Lord Bishop of Worcester..

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:

church, king, law, england, lord, god, court, churches, bishop, laws, government, ecclesiastical, clergy, civil, christian, statute, son, minister, land, kingdom, father, ecclesiasticall, council, common, christ, canterbury, authority, tcp, spiritual, scripture, reason, priests, pope, parliament, man, lords, kings, justice, henry, ghost, english, edward, charter, chap, canon, bishops, arch, apostle, act, william

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 church, and Certaine considerations drawne from the canons of the last Sinod, and other the Kings ecclesiasticall and statue law ad informandum animum Domini Episcopi Wigornensis, seu alterius cuiusuis iudicis ecclesiastici, ne temere & inconsulto prosiliant ad depriuationem ministrorum Ecclesiæ: for not subscription, for the not exact vse of the order and forme of the booke of common prayer, heeretofore provided by the parishioners of any parish church, within the diocesse of Worcester, or for the not precise practise of the rites, ceremonies, & ornaments of the Church. 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?":

things, men, man, time, thing, p., doth, power, case, hath, reason, part, words, others, cap, place, cause, way, ad, kings, people, persons, self, scripture, person, life, word, matter, day, name, manner, church, law, end, nothing, nature, times, one, order, truth, sort, hands, years, use, authority, respect, death, purpose, religion, year

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:

be, is, was, are, were, have, had, did, being, said, do, made, been, make, take, according, concerning, say, let, given, called, hath, done, taken, see, come, give, set, having, granted, held, put, think, know, brought, hold, thought, found, vnto, used, touching, prove, received, doth, haue, paid, receive, came, read, appointed

Proper Nouns

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

church, 〉, ◊, 〈, god, law, c., king, christ, de, bishop, hath, court, ●, ecclesiastical, lord, england, case, bishops, tithes, b., laws, lib, pope, sect, rome, h., statute, l., parson, haue, sacrament, s., est, ecclesiasticall, churches, authority, council, archbishop, common, canon, world, k., henry, r., pag, christian, doe, cum, holy

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, his, they, he, their, them, we, i, him, our, you, us, himself, themselves, my, her, your, me, she, thy, thee, theirs, its, ours, one, ye, mine, whereof, yours, vp, vnto, herself, ourselves, non, ''em, itself, em, s, na, hay, u, thēselues, therby, ●, yt, vvhat, us''d, thou, quo, quae

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?"

such, other, same, first, good, many, great, own, more, much, common, whole, true, very, former, particular, certain, like, present, saith, necessary, second, ancient, most, holy, several, able, doth, old, last, void, new, greater, scandalous, general, sufficient, least, better, third, ordinary, little, due, ecclesiastical, christian, next, free, lawful, best, civil, full

not, so, then, also, therefore, as, now, more, only, onely, well, most, thereof, yet, even, very, much, there, first, thus, here, otherwise, out, before, ever, up, away, never, rather, forth, far, again, together, likewise, in, no, afterwards, all, thereby, still, down, that, whatsoever, off, is, too, further, especially, always, long

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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