A dataset of derogatory connotations in texts against heresy in Western Europe, 1000-1150

brief description

This dataset is a result of data collection and data coding procedure described in detail in the article entitled "Tracking the development of hate propaganda against heresy in Europe before the inquisition through a hypergraph representation".

First, we identified textual sources from the period 1000–1150 that discuss specific instances of Christian religious non-conformism attracting followers, arriving at the total of 40 texts, which represent the near-totality of extant sources meeting the just mentioned selection criteria. Second, data collector 1 read the passages on heresy in all the sources and manually collected all derogatory attributions (n=338). Third, data collector 1 and 2 developed 15 derogatory connotations (negative evaulative meaning) to capture the broader, context-dependent meaning associated with the attributions. Third, we applied an independent double-coding process to categorize the attributions into these derogatory connotations. The relationship between attributions and connotations was defined as 1:N, because negative attributions often have multiple connotations. Finally the two coders two coders discussed the disagreements (n=139), and reached a mutual agreement in all cases. 

hate_prop_texts_attrs_conns.tsv

tab-separated values, UTF-8 encoded text file

dimensions: 624 rows × 8 columns

each row represents one text-attribution relationship

longed format

column names

'text_id' : unique ID of the text (character) [starts with character T]

'text_title' : text title (character)

'text_shorttitle' : short title of the text (character)

'text_earliest_date' : earliest possible creation year (terminus post quem) of the text (integer) [four digits long]

'text_latest_date' : latest possible creation year (terminus ante quem) of the text (integer) [four digits long]

'attribution_id' : unique ID of the attribution (character) [starts with character C]

'attribution' : label of the attribution (character)

'connotation' : label of the connotation (character)