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Unbiased lexicometry analyses illuminate plague dynamics during the second pandemic

2021-05-06

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Knowledge of the second plague pandemic that swept over Europe during the 14th-19th centuries, mainly relies on the exegesis of contemporary texts, prone to interpretive bias. Leveraging bioinformatic tools routinely used in biology, we here developed a quantitative lexicography of 32 texts describing two major plague outbreaks using contemporary plague-unrelated texts as negative controls. Nested, network and cat...

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Literature Corpus work: f64d973a-4d26-555a-9634-1ddec42c53d0
DOI: 10.1101/2021.05.06.442897

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