De meesters van de Spiegel. Auteursonderscheiding op basis van het frequente rijmwoord in het aandeel van Utenbroeke en Maerlant in de 'Spiegel historiael'

Samenvatting

Because of the poor quality of original matter transmitted to our times many Middle Dutch studies lack information on their authors. Hence, there is the need for a methodology to attribute and verify the authorship of Middle Dutch texts. Scholars are increasingly concerned with experiments in authorship attribution, based on insights from computational philology. In this paradigm a lot of attention is being paid to high-frequency words. This paper will research whether it is possible to stylistically verify medieval authorship. By means of Machine Learning we shall assess the verification of authorship in the Middle Dutch adaptation of the Speculum historiale on the basis of rhyme words.