Romanian Love Charms

A structural analysis of Romanian love charms.

Sanda Golopentia had constructed a corpus of Romanian love charms on the Brown mainframe over 10 years ago. This was implemented by Allen Renear using Waterloo Script, and was used to typeset a book analyzing the love charms. Since then, she has been expanding the corpus by adding more texts, and wanted to perform the same classification and analysis as she had before. In order for this to be possible, the digital texts had to be converted into a database, and provided with an interface via the WWW. Together with Prof. Golopentia, STG also developed a simple website about the love charms, containing ancillary materials such audio and video of the charms.

STG analyzed the original Script files in order to determine the structures that were put in place, and create an SQL database, accessible via the web. This is now in place and Prof. Golopentia is correcting and adding to it. We have also implemented a website to to display the charms and their classifications.

Romanian Love Charms is a project of French Studies

Contributors to this project include Sanda Golopentia (Faculty lead), Elli Mylonas (CDS), Carole Mah (STG)