Digging into the enlightenment: Mapping the Republic of Letters
The project will work on the Electronic Enlightenment corpus, one of the largest standardised digitised collections of letters from this period. The letters, featuring a variety of writers and recipients from Europe, Asia and the Americas, are often rich in geographical and personal detail, and constitute a resource that is a true cross-section of early modern society. The project will demonstrate a new visual analysis methodology that helps humanities researchers to browse, mine, organize and share not only complex data sets but also their detailed observations and insights.
Project Staff
Project Directors
• Robert McNamee, University of Oxford robert.mcnamee@e-enlightenment.info
• Dan Edelstein, Stanford University, danedels@stanford.edu
• Chris Weaver, University of Oklahoma weaver@cs.ou.edu