Replication Data for: Theory­Driven Statistics for the Digital Humanities: Presenting Pitfalls and a Practical Guide by the Example of the Reformation

This dataset is based on a collection of territories of the Holy Roman Empire that played an important role during the European Reformation according to Schindling & Ziegler (1989 - 1995): Die Territorien des Reichs im Zeitalter der Reformation und Konfessionalisierung, Bände 1-5. The type of the first denominational switch of these territories (become protestant vs remain Catholic) and its year were coded manually. The data on territories was enriched by a dataset on letter correspondences between protestant reformers in 16th-century Europe. These data contain the full or partial letter editions of nine famous reformers: Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchthon, Huldrych Zwingli, Heinrich Bullinger, Andreas Karlstadt, Oswald Myconius, Joachim Vadian, Johannes Oekolampad (see main text for sources of databases). Together, these letter editions capture correspondences between 3,000 individuals which we refer to as 'reformers'.