Data

Research Data

The data that we focus on in our project are the characters that appear in the texts we are analysing, and connections between these characters as described by the texts' authors. If you scroll further down, you can find visual representations of gender distribution of characters for comparison between texts. The character lists from which these graphs are derived can be found in the drop-down tabs, organised by regional background:

• Texts from the Later Roman Empire

• Texts from Merovingian Gaul

• Texts from Northumbria

The texts analysed, arranged alphabetically, are as follows:

· Anonymous, Life of Cuthbert

· Athanasius, Historia Arianorum

· Baudonivia, Vita Radegundis

· Bede, Life of Cuthbert

· Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum

· Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia Ecclesiastica

· Eusebius of Caesarea, Vita Constantini

· Gregory of Tours, Decem Libri Historiarum

· Lactantius, De Mortibus Persecutorum

· Rufinus of Aquileia, Historia Ecclesiastica

· Stephen, Vita Wilfridi

· Venantius Fortunatus, Vita Radegundi

We gather our data through close reading of the texts in their original language, using the most up-to-date critical edition; we do not use 'distant machine reading'. For more information on how we collect and visualise this data and the connections between them, see our data model under 'Graphs & Charts'.

Later Roman Empire

Merovingian Gaul

Northumbria