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HyperEssays is a project to create a modern and accessible online edition of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne https://hyperessays.net/

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There are a couple of other new features worth mentioning: 1) Word frequency stats in search results and indices (people, places, and sources) are normalized for better comparison.

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2) Many chapters now come in two versions: a main page with text, source markers ❦, and notes; and an alternate page which adds layer markers, typographical corrections, and page numbers. The previous design relied on overlays to indicate textual layers. This current solution is more accessible.

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Not every word is findable using contemporary French yet, but I’m tagging and indexing more historical forms every day. Like everything else on the site, it’s a work in progress. 🐌 (Same goes for Early Modern English forms, btw)

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“Upon review, the passage I gave you … was incorrect and not an authentic transcription from Montaigne’s Essais. I did not fabricate it deliberately, but I mistakenly generated a reconstructed text based on paraphrases rather than directly sourcing the original.” 🙄

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It’s mid-December and I know what you’re thinking: Time for another end-of-year recap. So here’s one you didn’t know you needed: HyperEssays 2023 Wrapped!

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The second, Leonor, is a TEI file and lexicon manager. It is still a work in progress and developed only with HyperEssays in mind at this point. But it has already made copy editing, updating, and working with its lexicons much faster and easier.

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Yesterday something quite remarkable happened: The Florentine Codex, an Encyclopedia of Aztec culture in 12 volumes finished in 1569, was posted in a digital version with beautiful images and translation. Everyone with an interest in history should check it out. florentinecodex.getty.edu

florentinecodex.getty.eduDigital Florentine CodexThe Getty Research Institute provides global access to the Florentine Codex, considered the most important manuscript of early colonial Mexico
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Phillip John Usher’s latest installment of “Conversations with People who Read Montaigne,” in French, is on YouTube: youtu.be/10QCtkOL8pI?... Frank Lestringant talks about ”Des Coches” and Montaigne’s place in 16th cent. discussions of the colonization of the “New World.”

youtu.beConversations with People who Read Montaigne, Episode 4: Frank Lestringant and Phillip John Usher« Conversations with People who Read Montaigne », a series hosted by Phillip John Usher (NYU). For more details on the series, including future dates, past r...
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Phillip John Usher’s latest installment of “Conversations with People who Read Montaigne,” in French, is on YouTube: youtu.be/10QCtkOL8pI?... Frank Lestringant talks about ”Des Coches” and Montaigne’s place in 16th cent. discussions of the colonization of the “New World.”

youtu.beConversations with People who Read Montaigne, Episode 4: Frank Lestringant and Phillip John Usher« Conversations with People who Read Montaigne », a series hosted by Phillip John Usher (NYU). For more details on the series, including future dates, past r...
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Lestringant touches on Montaigne’s “laicization of history,” the construction of “Des Coches” (a legal mind’s denunciation of European savagery built around nausea/“écœurement”), and where Montaigne fits, or doesn’t, in post-/anticolonialism.

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The book includes no notes, index, or bibliography but serves, in the words of Yiyun Li who wrote a short intro to the collection, as “a fine introduction for readers who are just about to discover Montaigne.” pushkinpress.com/books/what-d...

pushkinpress.comWhat Do I Know? | Pushkin PressA selection of Michel de Montaigne’s most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition featuring an introduction by Yiyun Li ‘I myself am the subject of my book��...
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The book is organized in three sections: “Montaigne on Montaigne” (I.2, I.7, I.8, I.9, I.19), “On the Pursuit of Reason” (I.18, I.27, I.38, I.39, I.47, II.2), and “On Governance and Governors” (I.31, I.42, I.44, I.57, III.6).

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It includes an entire chapter, by Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin, dedicated to Marie de Gournay and several others — one by Allauren Samantha Forbes and another by Martina Reuter — relevant to her work on Montaigne’s *Essays* and much beyond.

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Hello Bluesky! Our first post will be a short introduction. HyperEssays is a project to create a modern and accessible online version of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne.

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