Did inquisitors fear charges of sexual misconduct?

We analyzed the spaces of interrogation in the Milan trial with the Guglielmites, 1300. The spatial patterns of interrogation are striking, and clearly based on gender.

19 Sep 2023

Quantitative research into medieval inquisition records is far from being a set of boring tables and numbers; there are intriguing stories behind. We have looked at the spaces of interrogation in a Milanese trial from 1300, and it transpired that there is a clear gender pattern. Check why this is the case in the September issue of History Today.

19 Jul

Mapping Waldensian “synagogues”

DISSINET has published a map of Waldensian gathering places in Piedmont.
23 Jun

A new historian and a computational sociologist have joined the DISSINET team

The DISSINET has welcomed two new team members over recent months following the departure of a historian and a sociologist in autumn 2022.
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1 Jun

InkVisitor website launched

The official website of InkVisitor, a state-of-the-art environment for the collection of complex data from texts developed in the Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET) at Masaryk University, is now launched.
22 May

Map of Early Heresy cases in the West, c.1000-c.1150

The interactive map application presents dataset of early cases of heresy in the West, ca. 1000–1150, compiled from original Latin sources. It shows locations, heresy cases linked to those locations, and mentions in the sources, on which the description is based.

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