Digging Into the Enlightenment: Mapping the Republic of Letters Project

Name Digging Into the Enlightenment: Mapping the Republic of Letters
Homepage http://enlightenment.humanitiesnetwork.org/
Description This collaborative project analyzed the degree to which the effects of the Enlightenment can be observed in the writing of people of various occupations in a corpus of 53,000 18th-century letters called Electronic Enlightenment (EE). The hypothesis of the project presents a new perspective in the practice of interpretative research in the field of humanities. This view aimed to integrate innovative visualization and annotation techniques into interactive tools for exploring and analyzing information about people, places, times, and relationships in the 'Republic of Letters'.
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