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.

More articles

27 May

Did medieval inquisitors fear accusations of sexual misconduct?

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.
10 Apr

Map: Heresy and occupation in Bologna around 1300

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.
29 Mar

Towards a corpus of medieval inquisition records: First numbers

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.
6 Feb

DISSINET’s article on the spatiality of heresy prosecutions published in Springer Nature’s Humanities and Social Science Communications

DISSINET has published a new article on toponymic surnames and the spatiality of heresy prosecutions in a Springer-Nature journal, contributing to systematic analysis of European inquisition records as structured data.