Found a couple of bugs relating to the return of results based on searching with no search text (just based on the search filters), which were generating XSLT errors; those then mapped to "no results" rather than a useful error message, so it was difficult to see what was actually happening behind the scenes.
These are things we've noticed over the last couple of weeks, working with the Web site, which are now fixed:
- When searching with "phrase exacte", image thumbnails did not show up. This was because of a small bug in the processing of hits found this way (using
contains()
instead of&=
). - When annotations have no content, just a
<head>
tag (i.e. an annotation title), there's no need for an empty content box to show up on the Web rendering of the image. The XSLT now traps for this condition, and doesn't generate the empty box. - Search results now show the dates of documents, if they have dates.
- Dates appear in the mouseover tooltips in the image gallery, following the title of the engraving.
- Dates appear after the titles in the browser caption bar (HTML
<title>
element). - Dates appear in the titles of the teasers on the index pages.
The distribution of clefs is more skewed than even the bâtons:
- 7 keys, or bunches of keys, are in the possession of women.
- In two cases, a woman is using a bunch of keys as a weapon to attack a man.
- A key appears in the possession of a man only once, in Le Mari Impuissant. It's not clear what this key is for.
The distribution of balais is: five are in the hands of women, and three in the hands of men. In two of the latter cases, the man is in a submissive position with regard to his wife; the third instance is one of the complex collage-style images depicting a "Homme de mesnage" with a face created entirely of objects. However, of the five balais in the hands of women, three are being used as weapons in attacks on men.
I've done some counting of how and where bâtons appear:
- Total bâtons: 18
- Bâtons in the possession of men: 6
- Of those 6, 3 are actively being used on women.
- Bâtons in the possession of women: 12
- Of those 12, 7 are actively being used on men.
In other words, this weapon is shown in the possession of women, and being wielded as a weapon by women, twice as frequently as it's shown in male hands.
Finished marking up objects, creatures and people in the last few images. Most of these were simpler images with fewer features. I've put the results into the database, and now I'll start doing some investigation of what we've learned, starting with objects.
Ran this quick piece of XQuery against the DT to find out what values we have for Annotation Titles in the Objets category:
declare default element namespace "http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"; let $annList := //div[@type='imtAnnotation'], $shortlist := ( for $d in $annList let $facs := $d/@facs where $d/ancestor::TEI/descendant::zone[@xml:id = $facs]/@rendition = 'Objets' return $d ) for $h in distinct-values($shortlist//head) order by $h return $h
These are the results (43 distinct values):
- Balai
- Balai comme arme
- Bateau
- Brouette
- Bâton
- Clefs
- Clefs comme arme
- Clefs de la femme au premier plan, à droit
- Coffre à cosmétiques
- Couteau
- Crochets
- Cruches
- Enclume
- Enseigne du Lustucru
- Faux
- Fouet
- Fourche
- Fourchette
- Fourneau
- Hache
- La Lune
- La chaise
- Lime
- Marteau
- Marteau comme arme
- Pelle comme arme
- Pichet
- Pichet renversé
- Pot de chambre
- Quenouille
- Quilles?
- Seau
- Soufflet
- Souliers de la femme
- Tenaille
- Tête coupée
- Tête coupée de Lustucru
- Tête de Méduse
- Tête sur laquelle on opère
- Têtes coupées
- Têtes pendues
- Vaisseau en feu
- Vaisseaux en feu
There's obviously room for a bit more standardization here, but this is already useful.
I've marked up a further six images today; they were all fairly busy ones, with some linking between them, and took longer than I expected. I have nine to go.
Working through the images, marking up objects, people and other bits and pieces, I'm beginning to put together the basics of the Lustucru story. This is how it seems to work:
Lustucru nowadays seems to mean a fool or a buffoon, but the figure of Lustucru in these images is not like that. He's basically the Opérateur Céphalique; working in what looks like a blacksmith's shop, with appropriate tools (furnace, bellows, anvil, hammer, tongs, and file), he and his assistants remove and replace the heads of women, who are brought in by their husbands to be "improved". A cruder version of this workshop appears in Jean Tangous.
Outside the shop, ships bring a cargo of new heads up the river; these are unloaded and brought into the workshop by other workers. The shop appears to advertise itself by hanging out the decapitated heads of women, and by a sign showing a decapitated body.
This "normal" state of affairs -- men having their women "fixed" to tame their natures -- is inverted in L'invention des femmes (1) and (2), where the women force their men to undergo operations which similarly render them more malleable and cooperative. Interestingly, these operations do not involve actual decapitation; instead, a (male) surgeon seems to perform more delicate work on the patient's skull, using a knife. Following the operation, these men wear the symbol "A", as a "marque de bon mari".
However, in several engravings, typified in La grande destruction de Lustucru par les femmes fortes, and also shown in the two Massacre de Lustucru pictures (here and here), the women take direct revenge on Lustucru and his assistants. They invade his workshop and attack the men, subjecting them to the same decapitation, throwing their heads into the furnace, and dragging Lustucru's body down to the riverside. They also set fire to the ships which bring heads to the workshop.
In both the Massacre pictures, there are male bystanders who mildly regret what is happening, and provide a link to the Confrerie des Martyrs; one says that "la confrerie des Martirs sera plus grande" as a result of the massacre.
I have only about fifteen images to go, so I should be finished with this first pass through objects, people and creatures tomorrow. I'm noticing that hats on the floor are a symbol of defeat; hats in hand symbolize submission or importuning; and hats on heads, especially large ones with prominent feathers, show command and virility.