Tim Eipert and Fabian C. Moss

A System of Trope Elements

Using Network Models to Understand Interrelations Within the Transmission of Trope Complexes

How do individual tropes spread geographically, and how can different manuscripts be grouped based on shared content? Previous approaches have manually computed troper similarities based on concordant trope elements and used them for clustering from which the groupings can be read in detail. While the time of creation of surviving medieval manuscripts is not necessarily identical to the time of origin of the chants they contain, the geospatial distribution of different chants within all extant manuscripts of various provenances offers clues about potential historical layers of their origin.

Interactive Figure in Poster Communities in Medieval Troper Networks are Shaped by Carolingian Politics (DLfM 2023)

Network of Tropes with Territories after Treatise of Verdun

Data

Our data contains entries from volumes I (Christmas) and III (Easter) of the Corpus Troporum (CT) project, representing a central part of the cycle of proper tropes. Other volumes are in preparation. The data was transcribed semi-automatically. It contains as of today: You can get the dataset on Open Science Framework

Older Visualisations (MedRen 2023)

Other Resources on Medieval Chant

See Digital Landscape of Medieval Chant (github)