Mark Greengrass

Retrieval Of Morphological Variants In Searches Of Latin Text Databases

This paper reports a detailed evaluation of the effectiveness of a system that has been developed for the identification and retrieval of morphological variants in searches of Latin text databases. A user of the retrieval system enters the principal parts of the search term (two parts for a noun or adjective, three parts for a deponent verb, and four parts for other verbs), this enabling the identification of the type of word that is to be processed and of the rules that are to be followed in determining the morphological variants that should be retrieved. Two different search algorithms are described. The algorithms are applied to the Latin portion of the Hartlib Papers Collection and to a range of classical, vulgar and medieval Latin texts drawn from the Patrologia Latina and from the PHI Disk 5.3 datasets. The effectiveness of these searches demonstrates the effectiveness of our procedures in providing access to the full range of classical and post-classical Latin text databases.

Noble Affinities in Early Modern France: The Case of Henri I de Montmorency, Constable of France

An American historian has recently investigated the provincial governors of France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and drawn on functionalist sociology in an attempt to explain their position.’ They were a ’power elite’ for which the forces of ’clientage and brokerage’ the myriad demands for pensions, offices and favours channelled to the king by these governors were fundamental to their ’Renaissance system of government’. At some stage in the later sixteenth century there was a structural ’failure of clientage’ whereby provincial governors, unrewarded by bankrupt monarchs, were forced to turn to religiously-based parties in order to sustain their power-bases. In the course of time, it is argued, French kings would

Catholic Activism in South-West France, 1540–1570 (review)

appearing here are also found in liminal texts opening contemporaneous editions.All these documents should be exploited in the ambitious project of a comprehensive database of Paris graduates between 1500 and 1530 planned by James Farge (p. xxiv). The reader will find eight very useful indices registering names of the students and teachers, of the different colleges, of the dioceses whom students belong to.Consulting systematically the liminal material of the contemporaneous editions should help to identify some students and teachers, hidden behind the Latin names. I would add some details about the identification of these names:Robert Cesar is Robert de Keysere, François and Jacques de Bosco are the brothers Dubois. As for Vaudequin Thivet, the exlibris that we could read in a copy of Pindar (Bibliothèque Municipale de Rouen, J O 199)4 and in Ravisius Textor’s Epitheta5 do not permit even the slightest doubt about its proper reading as Thivet (and not Thinet). The strange name Hominede (no. 616A) should be read Hommede, certainly to identify with Johannes Hom(m)edeus, a pupil of Girolamo Aleandro, perhaps a fellow Italian (Omedei).To continue with Aleandro, the right reading of the dedication quoted in the introduction is candidatis (p. xxx n. 21). Finally, Guillaume Aubery does not appear in no. 632A, but in nos. 204, 355, 619, 900, and 1044. But that’s enough quibbling about such trifles: James Farge’s book is a solid and impressive work, bringing lots of new data about the University of Paris, of which we sincerely await the next stage.

Protestant exiles and their assimilation in early modern England

Recent published and unpublished studies of the protestant migration to England are surveyed in this article, written in the context of the commemoration of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes which occurred three hundred years ago this year. Conclusions about migration and settlement to England need to be set into the European context and various further directions for future research in England are suggested by the comparison. Detailed historical investigation has enabled us to be more precise about the chronology and extent of the migration to England. The study of the mentality of exiles and their assimilation is shown to be an important one for the understanding of early modern culture.

Europe’s ‘Wars of Religion’ and their Legacies

The inseparability of Christianity from the exercise of power by secular authorities in the Reformation era does not diminish the continuing ideological utility of singling out –religion’ as a supposedly discrete domain of human life particularly prone to violence.1

MEMOIRES ET PROCEDURES DE MA NEGOCIATION EN ANGLETERRE (8 OCTOBER 1582–8 OCTOBER 1583) BY JEAN MALLIET, COUNCILLOR OF GENEVA

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‘PhiloFacs’: a Tool for Searching Latin Text Databases

This article discusses the design, production and use of a British Library funded project to provide rs a stemming search engine for Latin text. The resulting software has been christened ‘PhiloFacs’ — short for ‘PhilologiaFacilis’, itself, appropriately enough, a conflation of stems.

Reviews : Isabelle Aristide, La fortune de Sully, Paris, Comité pour l'histoire économique et financière de la France, Ministère de l'Economie, des Finances et du Budget, 1990; xxvi + 497 pp.; FF 270

It is difficult to imagine a historical work, let alone one of this quality, being published by the British Treasury. Sully, of course, has a particular significance for the French Ministry of Finance since (in his Economies royales) he successfully projected his period as surintendant des finances under Henri IV as one of budgetary discipline, reform, efficient management of resources and good accounting. But Isabelle Aristide’s excellent

Reviews : Philip T. Hoffman, Church and Community in the Diocese of Lyon 1500-1789, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1984. x + 239pp. £20.00

Catholic susceptibilities m 1593. But the readmess to be wooed itself requires an explanation; and that perhaps fits uneasily into the framework of a royal biography. So doubts remain about Buisseret’s account of the ralliement of 1593. And it may be that he does less than justice to the implications of that ralliement for Henry’s later career. The Herculean image the embattled king beatmg down a succession of enemies at home and abroad may in this context prove misleading. Buisseret’s dust-jacket tells us that one of