Maths Meets Myths: Quantitative Approaches to Ancient Narratives

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kenna, Ralph (Editor), MacCarron, Máirín (Editor), MacCarron, Pádraig (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Understanding Complex Systems,
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.