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).
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.
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.
