Stylometric authorship attribution for the Middle Dutch mystical tradition from Groenendaal

Abstract: The well-known medieval Groenendaal monastery in Brabant has produced some of the finest examples of medieval Dutch literature, including Jan van Ruusbroecs uvre, who together with Anne Frank, remains the most frequently translated Dutch author of all time. Authorship attribution nevertheless remains a serious scholarly concern when it comes to the corpus of mystical texts from Groenendaal: because of the general proximity of the Groenendaal authors, their uvres can be difficult to delineate. In this paper, I apply a quantitative, style-based methodology for authorship attribution to... Mehr ...