1. ABOUT THE DATASET
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Title:	 Quantitative data on the use of imperium (empire) in early medieval advice to kings and queens

Creator(s): Meehan, Eddie

Organisation(s): University of Leeds

Rights-holder(s):Unless otherwise stated, Copyright 2025 University of Leeds

Publication Year: 2025

Description: This dataset is a quantitative dataset of the use of the terms imperium, imperator, and connected words in a group of advice texts for Carolingian (c. 751-888, western Europe) rulers. I used Quanteda, a set of packages for the R programming language, to gather this data from the plaintext and perform the statistical operations needed, including collocation and keyness analyses. The dataset is then used in the associated article to argue for changing conceptual meanings of the term over the eighth and ninth centuries.

Cite as: Meehan, Eddie (2025) Quantitative data on the use of imperium (empire) in early medieval advice to kings and queens. University of Leeds. [Dataset] https://doi.org/10.5518/1784

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Contact: emeehan@liverpool.ac.uk


2. TERMS OF USE
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Unless otherwise stated, this dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed


3. PROJECT AND FUNDING INFORMATION
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Title: Ideal and moral rulership between insular and Carolingian worlds

Funding organisation: AHRC

Grant no.: 2636070


4. CONTENTS
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File listing
Data
	frequency_allauthors.csv
	keyness_agobard.cs
	keyness_alcuin.csv
	keyness_cathwulf.cs
	keyness_hrabanus.csv
	keyness_jonas.csv
	keyness_sedulius.csv	
	keyness_smaragdus.csv
Plot
	frequency_date.svg
	frequency_desc.svg
	keyness.svg