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.
This time, the hosts of Middle Ages differently podcast series, Ivan Foletti and Jiří Macháček, decided to focus on Digital Humanities and in their #9 episode talked with David Zbíral about "Cathar heresy between zeroes and ones".
Besides the methods and the potential of computer assisted research of middle Ages and the specificities of Cathars, topics of inquisition practices and deponent strategies were discussed and similarities with present times were pointed out.
The podcast is available on youtube here (in Czech).
Our comprehensive dataset of witchcraft trials in Czech lands has been utilised by the popular online publication Aktuálně.cz to create a new map.
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