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 VerdunData
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:- Trope elements from 100 tropers (manuscripts)
- Tropes for 49 different primary chants
- Number of unique trope elements: 1 413
Older Visualisations (MedRen 2023)
- Reproduction of Hileys Network
- Troper Network with Jaccard Metric
- Troper Network plotted on Map
- Troper Network plotted with Trope Elements on Map