Maths Meets Myths: Quantitative Approaches to Ancient Narratives

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Kenna, Ralph (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), MacCarron, Máirín (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), MacCarron, Pádraig (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Σειρά: Understanding Complex Systems,
• Θέματα: Physics.; History.; Medieval philosophy.; Historical linguistics.; Social sciences.; Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks.; History, general.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Historical Linguistics.; Medieval Philosophy.

With an emphasis on exploring measurable aspects of ancient narratives, Maths Meets Myths sets out to investigate age-old material with new techniques. This book collects, for the first time, novel quantitative approaches to studying sources from the past, such as chronicles, epics, folktales, and m...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Cognitive and Network Constraints in Real Life and Literature
• A Networks Approach to Mythological Epics
• Medieval Historical, Hagiographical and Biographical Networks
• Peopling of the New World from data on distributions of folklore motifs
• Phylogenetics Meets Folklore: Bioinformatic Approaches to the Study of International Folktales
• Analyses of a VirtualWorld
• Ghostscope: Conceptual Mapping of Supernatural Phenomena in a Large Folklore Corpus
• Complex Networks of Words in Fables
• Analysing and Restoring the Chronology of the Irish Annals
• Mapping Literate Networks in Early Medieval Ireland Quantitative Realities, Social Mythologies?
• How quantitative methods can shed light on a problem of comparative mythology: The myth of the struggle for supremacy between two groups of deities reconsidered.