Events and news

29 May

CEDRR talk: Analyzing non-local influence processes in dynamic networks

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

DISSINET team invites you to a guest lecture on dynamic networks by Daniel Gotthardt from Universität Hamburg, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften. Colleagues unaffiliated with Masaryk University are welcome to attend online.

6 Nov 2024

CEDRR guest lecture "Political Networks: What Are They and How Do They Matter?"

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Dr. Petr Ocelík from the Department of International Relations and European Studies, Masaryk University, will illustrate how social network analysis, as a methodological and metatheoretical framework, contributes to a better understanding of the political world.

25 Oct 2024

Gender and Heresy lecture by David Zbíral at the University of Bologna

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

David Zbíral is giving a lecture, with the option of online participation, on “Gender and heresy: Actions of men and women in corpus data from twenty-five inquisition registers” at the University of Bologna.

22 May 2024

CEDRR talk "RELIC: A Digital Approach to Christianisation and the Everyday People on the Eastern Fringes of the Ottonian-Salian Empire"

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Medievalist and archaeologist Mária Vargha from the University of Vienna will talk about her project focused on comparative investigation of the Christianisation processes in East-Central Europe.

News by date

16 May

DISSINET Data on Witchcraft Trials featured on Aktuálně.cz

Our comprehensive dataset of witchcraft trials in Czech lands has been utilised by the popular online publication Aktuálně.cz to create a new map.

1 Apr

Medieval anti-heretical hate speech: Support in submitting a Marie Skłodowska Curie postdoc application (MSCA-PF)

DISSINET is searching for Ph.D. graduates inerested in applying for a post-doc position focusing on medieval anti-heretical hate speech using digital and quantitative methods. Send us a preliminary research proposal by 15 April 2025.

31 Mar

Medieval anti-heretical hate speech: Funded Ph.D. opportunity

DISSINET is offering support to M.A. graduates applying for fully funded Ph.D. studies focusing on medieval anti-heretical hate speech using digital and quantitative methods. Send us a preliminary research proposal by 15 April 2025.

31 Mar

DISSINET is now on Bluesky and Mastodon

Stay up to date with DISSINET news by following our new social media accounts.

12 Feb

Gender patterns in medieval heresy incriminations

Examining an extensive register of inquisition from Bologna, 1291-1310, we found that women tended to incriminate other women, while men incriminated across genders.

27 May 2024

Did medieval inquisitors fear accusations of sexual misconduct?

It is a familiar image: a woman in distress, surrounded by men examining her soul in a dimly lit inquisitorial chamber. In fear of physical torture, she confesses to crimes she never committed. We bring you an online version of our article originally published in History Today.

10 Apr 2024

Map: Heresy and occupation in Bologna around 1300

DISSINET has developed an interactive map of the occupations, dissident religious affiliations, and locations of residence of nearly 900 persons suspected of heresy in the inquisition register of Bologna, 1291–1310.

29 Mar 2024

Towards a corpus of medieval inquisition records: First numbers

Building upon the invaluable work of modern editors, the DISSINET project is building a textual corpus of medieval inquisitorial material, which now contains 15 registers, totals over 1.6 million tokens, and ranges from North-Central Italy through Languedoc to England, and from the 1230s until the 1520s.

6 Feb 2024

DISSINET’s article on the spatiality of heresy prosecutions published in Springer Nature’s Humanities and Social Science Communications

DISSINET has published a new article on toponymic surnames and the spatiality of heresy prosecutions in a Springer-Nature journal, contributing to systematic analysis of European inquisition records as structured data.

1 Dec 2023

DISSINET in podcast DATAŘI

David Zbíral and Tomáš Hampejs talk about inquisition records as digital capta with Jan Cibulka in the Czech Radio podcast „DATAŘI“.

27 Nov 2023

CASTEMO data blooms in Neo4j graph databases

Great news! CASTEMO data collected in InkVisitor can now be readily outputted into Neo4j graph databases. Neo4j allows for collected data to be flexibly explored, queried, enriched, and analysed with graph tools.

9 Nov 2023

DISSINET’s article on sentencing in early inquisition trials published in Historical Methods

DISSINET article applying computational methods to sentencing in early inquisition trials published in a top ranking journal Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History.