Mining Angels in Jewish and Coptic Magic Texts

Jewish and Christian magical literature abound in references to angels, who are beseeched or adjured to assist in achieving the aim of the magical act. This paper focuses on angels that appear in Jewish and Coptic magical texts from late-antique and medieval Egypt. Its proposed method, however, can be applied further to other historical contexts. The paper is part of a larger research project that employs digital methods to analyze angelic nomenclature in Jewish magic and the magic of related cultures

Amsterdam Declaration on Funding Research Software Sustainability

The Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and the Netherlands eScience Center hosted a two-day international workshop in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) on 8-9 November 2023 to set the future agenda for national and international funders to support sustainable research software. As the importance of software in research has become increasingly apparent, so has the urgent need to sustain it. Funders can play a crucial role in this respect by ensuring structural support. Over the past few years, a variety of methods for sustaining research software have been explored, including improving and extending funding policies and instruments. During the workshop, funding organizations joined forces to explore how they can effectively contribute to making research software sustainable. In preparation of the workshop, a draft of a future international declaration, titled "Amsterdam Declaration on Funding Research Software Sustainability" was created by the Research Software Alliance, the Netherlands eScience Center and with input from stakeholders in the field

Anticlericalism in the Netherlands: Some Preliminary Remarks

Anticlericalism in the northern Netherlands has hardly been treated as a topic in its own right. Yet the Dutch have produced their share of political theorists, jurists, philosophers, and a substantial flock of independent writers, who were more often than not virulently anticlerical, or who were at least opposed to the prevailing religious system, and emphasized, in particular, secular control over the clergy. In this paper, I shall attempt to provide a rough outline of anticlericalism in th..

Église contre culture

L’histoire religieuse et culturelle des Pays-Bas s’est peu à peu détachée de l’histoire ecclésiastique confessionnelle, où chaque Église développait sa propre histoire. Cette évolution est cependant, selon Joris Van Eijnatten, encore mise en question dans le monde universitaire et elle se fait dans un contexte de désintérêt grandissant pour l’histoire religieuse

Ecumene Redefined : Concepts of Religious (Inter)national Unity in British, Dutch and Swedish Parliamentary Debates, 1880–2020

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Disentangling a Trinity: A Digital Approach to Modernity, Civilization and Europe in Dutch Newspapers (1840-1990)

Abstract of paper 0572 presented at the Digital Humanities Conference 2019 (DH2019), Utrecht , the Netherlands 9-12 July, 2019

Big Data for Global History: The Transformative Promise of Digital Humanities

This article discusses the promises and challenges of digital humanitiesmethodologies for historical inquiry. In order to address the great outstanding question whether big data will re-invigorate macro-history, a number of research projects are described that use cultural text mining to explore big data repositories of digitised newspapers. The advantages of quantitative analysis, visualisation and named entity recognition in both exploration and analysis are illustrated in the study of public debates on drugs, drug trafficking, and drug users in the early twentieth century (wahsp), the comparative study of discourses about heredity, genetics, and eugenics in Dutch and German newspapers, 1863-1940 (biland) and the study of trans-Atlantic discourses (Translantis). While many technological and practical obstacles remain, advantages over traditional hermeneutic methodology are found in heuristics, analytics, quantitative trans-disciplinarity, and reproducibility, offering a quantitative and trans-national perspective on the history of mentalities