On 3 October, David Zbíral successfully passed the first step in the procedure towards full professorship. In his lecture for academic public, he presented the digital humanities approach towards medieval history.
He introduced DISSINET project’s original approach to data collection and the InkVisitor software, outlined several possible patterns for analysis of structured data from inquisition trials and discussed which answers can be obtained through computational methods, also mentioning possible pitfalls. The DISSINET team keeps fingers crossed for the future steps in front of scientific boards of the faculty and the university.
Evaluation board of the professorship procedure
Chair: prof. PhDr. Mgr. Tomáš Knoz, Ph.D. (Filozofická fakulta MU)
Members:
Prof. dr. Philippe Buc (Univerzita Leiden, Univerzita Vídeň)
prof. PhDr. Petr Sommer, CSc., DSc. (Akademie věd ČR)
Prof. dr hab. Stanisław Rosik (Vratislavská univerzita)
prof. PhDr. Martin Wihoda, Ph.D. (Filozofická fakulta MU)
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.
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.
