Distant Reader - subject-jesuits-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 53 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,321,852 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 24,940 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 88. 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, one, will, haue, great, make, yet, king, church, god, shall, men, man, good, much, made, now, must, many, first, pope, iesuites, time, though, without, like, might, well, take, say, us, also, let, pag, power, world, thing, father, things, others, two, true, religion, see, reason, therefore, england, words, society, princes

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The history of the wicked plots and conspiracies of our pretended saints representing the beginning, constitution, and designs of the Jesuite : with the conspiracies, rebellions, schisms, hypocrisie, perjury, sacriledge, seditions, and vilefying humour of some Presbyterians, proved by a series of authentick examples, as they have been acted in Great Brittain, from the beginning of that faction to this time / by Henry Foulis ..., A further discovery of the mystery of Jesuitisme In a collection of severall pieces, representing the humours, designs and practises of those who call themselves the Society of Jesus., and The Jesuits loyalty, manifested in three several treatises lately written by them against the oath of allegeance with a preface shewing the pernicious consequence of their principles as to civil government..

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

english books, early english, books online, secular priests, father parsons, page images, creation partnership, text creation, set downe, must needs, jesus christ, haue beene, man may, iesus christ, represented either, characters represented, tcp schema, image sets, make use, will never, deposing power, long since, gentle reader, every one, imperial majesty, take notice, let us, depose kings, protestant religion, may see, mean time, might haue, amongst vs, long time, well known, thought fit, one another, secular priest, haue bin, take away, greatest part, vnto vs, father garnet, tells us, every day, without asking, whole world, first edition, bit group, encoded edition

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are By the King. A proclamation. Charles R. Charles the Second, by the grace of God, King of Scotland, England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all and sundry our good subjects whom these presents do or may concern, greeting: we having, with the advice and consent of our Parliaments, past so many Acts in favour of the Protestant religion, against field-conventicles,... The Jesuite countermin''d. Or, An account of a new plot carrying on by the Jesuites: manifested by their present endeavours (under all shapes) to raise commotions in the land, by aspersing his Sacred Majesties counsels and actions. Also the reasonableness of modesty in subjects in judging the concerns of their prince., and A true narrative of the Popish-plot against King Charles I and the Protestant religion as it was discovered by Andreas ab Habernfeld to Sir William Boswel Ambassador at the Hague, and by him transmitted to Archbishop Laud, who communicated it to the King : the whole discoovery being found amongst the Archbishops papers, when a prisoner in the Tower, by Mr. Prynn (who was ordered to search them by a committee of the then Parliament) on Wednesday, May 31, 1643 : with some historical remarks on the Jesuits, and A vindication of the Protestant dissenters from disloyalty : also, A compleat history of the Papists late Presbyterian plot discovered by Mr. Dangerfield, wherein an account is given of some late transactions of Sir Robert Peyton..

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:

tcp, king, church, god, iesuites, pope, father, religion, princes, england, majesty, haue, english, authority, state, society, world, priests, order, council, arch, parsons, oath, man, jesuits, iesuits, iesuiticall, house, doctrine, colledge, catholicks, book, bishop, subjects, st., reader, protestant, priest, power, parliament, paris, maiestie, like, john, ignatius, government, general, france, faith, court

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 haue, and A collection of several treatises concerning the reasons and occasions of the penal laws 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?":

man, men, time, p., thing, things, others, words, reason, people, t, nothing, part, way, power, order, world, place, kings, religion, persons, hath, name, person, day, life, self, opinion, end, matter, truth, priests, fathers, death, none, themselues, text, cause, manner, hands, case, hand, purpose, page, years, king, ▪, one, hee, books

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, are, was, have, had, were, being, make, do, did, made, been, said, take, say, let, see, done, having, know, has, haue, come, give, thought, according, put, set, found, think, taken, does, sent, am, hath, find, brought, given, tell, concerning, came, believe, go, called, ''s, bring, call, heard, written

Proper Nouns

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

god, church, pope, king, iesuites, haue, pag, c., ●, england, rome, father, hath, society, princes, oath, 〉, ◊, christ, 〈, jesuits, parliament, tcp, majesty, english, prince, de, st., france, authority, iesuits, iesuite, doe, thou, mr., lord, popes, bishop, faith, sir, council, doctrine, l., court, religion, parsons, world, holy, colledge, power

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?"

they, it, their, his, he, i, them, him, our, you, we, my, her, your, me, themselves, us, she, himself, its, thy, thee, one, theirs, ours, ''em, vp, mine, yours, ye, ''s, ib, itself, vnto, l, whereof, hers, ●, herself, us''d, severall, non, f, dy''d, thēselues, s, wr, whosoever, urg''d, ia

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, great, many, same, good, more, own, true, first, much, whole, little, new, common, least, last, most, late, false, greater, several, certain, particular, second, old, better, very, former, present, greatest, religious, high, secular, like, holy, wicked, full, necessary, best, english, able, lawfull, few, next, long, haue, early, contrary, sufficient

not, so, then, now, more, as, very, most, also, only, well, yet, out, thus, therefore, never, much, up, there, too, here, onely, ever, first, thereof, rather, in, away, still, no, even, far, all, long, down, together, once, before, again, indeed, especially, otherwise, on, off, else, just, often, thereby, easily, sometimes

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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