Week 8 Practical: Global case survey: the international corpus as primary source data

Widening the same comparative method to a global corpus of documented cases, treated as primary source material rather than folklore to be filtered out.

12 April 2027

Before the practical#

Bring last week’s regional classifications — this week’s corpus is read against the same scheme, at a larger scale.

In the practical#

The international corpus students work through this week includes cases with no plausible route of contact between their original sources — different countries, different eras, no shared language of description — yet a number of them classify the same way under this course’s scheme. That repetition, not any one case’s detail, is the finding the desk-study phase is building toward.

Working through the corpus applies last week’s sourcing test at volume: most of it passes; the cases that don’t are set aside from the comparison, not deleted from the record.

Afterwards#

No submission this week. Next week’s practical pools this corpus with the regional one and asks what the convergence across it does and doesn’t support.