New member of DISSINET

26 Mar 2019

Dr. Robert Shaw (DPhil from the University of Oxford, awarded in 2015, thesis on The Celestine Monks of France c. 1350-1450: Monastic Reform in an Age of Schism, Council and War) was selected as the best candidate for a postdoctoral position in the DISSINET team. He joins the team on 1 May 2019, and we are excited to welcome him. His research project within DISSINET will focus on Languedoc as well as selected cases from Germany.

28 Oct

Katia Riccardo receives Vice-Rector’s Award

Katia Riccardo receives Vice-Rector’s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Studies in the academic year 2025/2026.
22 Oct

Hidden mechanisms of religious authority contestation: 4,433 inquisition testimonies across 300 years

Which medieval men and women were most prone to challenging the Church? Analysing 4,433 inquisitorial testimonies (1243–1522), a DISSINET study in the Journal of Cultural Analytics traces how contestation varied by religious group, gender, urban or rural setting, and period. It identifies women and countryfolk as the more frequent challengers, and finds that criticism grew over the period studied.
8 Sep

Medieval anti-heretical hate speech. Funded Ph.D. opportunity, deadline for expressions of interest: 5 October 2026

The Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET) invites applications from prospective Ph.D. students interested in digital and quantitative approaches to medieval anti-heretical hate speech. Successful candidates will join an international interdisciplinary research environment at Masaryk University. Expressions of interest are due by 5 October 2026.
2 Sep

What we read, mapped: the (inter)disciplinary shape of DISSINET's library

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.

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Katia Riccardo receives Vice-Rector’s Award

Hidden mechanisms of religious authority contestation: 4,433 inquisition testimonies across 300 years

Medieval anti-heretical hate speech. Funded Ph.D. opportunity, deadline for expressions of interest: 5 October 2026

What we read, mapped: the (inter)disciplinary shape of DISSINET's library