Medieval anti-heretical hate speech. Funded Ph.D. opportunity, deadline for expressions of interest: 5 October 2026
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.
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.
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A visualisation of DISSINET's more than 11,000-item Zotero library mapped by subject domain, root collection down to individual topic, shows the team’s focus in bibliographic terms, and how that reading spans history, network science, and computational text analysis.