GENCHRON Chronicles Dataset: Structured Character Data from Late Antique and Early Medieval Latin World Chronicles

Máirín MacCarron; Emily Quigley

doi:10.5334/johd.581

GENCHRON Chronicles Dataset: Structured Character Data from Late Antique and Early Medieval Latin World Chronicles

Journal of Open Humanities Data

Volume 12 (2026): Issue 1

By: Máirín MacCarron and Emily Quigley

Open Access

|Jul 2026

Abstract

We present the GENCHRON Chronicles Dataset, comprising structured character data derived from 14 Latin world chronicles from Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Created as part of the GENCHRON project (‘Time for Women? Gender Chronology and Historiography before AD 900’, IRCLA/2022/2234), the dataset was compiled through systematic close reading of critical editions using a bespoke data model. We recorded all individuals and groups appearing in the sources, together with attributes including gender, status, and relationships between people. The dataset supports future thematic, statistical and digital analyses of the chronicles within medieval studies and has broader methodological applications in the humanities.

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