VIOLENDINGS Violent actions contained in pastoral novels written in Spanish (1559-1633).

This dataset contains a categorization of the violent actions contained in pastoral novels (and in the courtly novels narrated by their characters) written in Spanish between 1559 and 1633 for a diachronic study of the representation of violence in this literary genre and its intersection with other literary traditions. It classifies violent actions by gender and social position of victims and aggressors, relationship between them, motive of aggression, weapon and correspondence with the motives of the Sith Thomphson index. In addition, it proposes a categorization for the types of solutions to violent scenes in this literary tradition and the 'distancing devices' used in their representation. The concepts proposed for this categorization are explained in the document INTRO[VIOLENDINGS]20240613_v1. This is the dataset of the research project identified by the acronym VIOLENDINGS —Violence and Happy Endings in the Spanish Golden Age Narrative— (Grant Agreement ID: 101062513),funded by the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions under Horizon Europe (2021). The project was developed at the Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature, Culture e Mediazioni of the Università degli Studi di Milano between 2022 and 2024.