12 Feb Gender patterns in medieval heresy incriminations Examining an extensive register of inquisition from Bologna, 1291-1310, we found that women tended to incriminate other women, while men incriminated across genders.
27 May 2024 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 2024 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 2024 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 2024 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.
1 Dec 2023 DISSINET in podcast DATAŘI David Zbíral and Tomáš Hampejs talk about inquisition records as digital capta with Jan Cibulka in the Czech Radio podcast „DATAŘI“.
27 Nov 2023 CASTEMO data blooms in Neo4j graph databases Great news! CASTEMO data collected in InkVisitor can now be readily outputted into Neo4j graph databases. Neo4j allows for collected data to be flexibly explored, queried, enriched, and analysed with graph tools.
9 Nov 2023 DISSINET’s article on sentencing in early inquisition trials published in Historical Methods DISSINET article applying computational methods to sentencing in early inquisition trials published in a top ranking journal Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History.
6 Oct 2023 Heresy Quantified - David Zbíral's professorship lecture David Zbíral's public lecture as part of the professorship procedure.
19 Sep 2023 Did inquisitors fear charges of sexual misconduct? Why did inquisitors interrogate women in different spaces than they did men? DISSINET looks into this in the most important history magazine worldwide, History Today.
19 Jul 2023 Mapping Waldensian “synagogues” DISSINET has published a map of Waldensian gathering places in Piedmont.
23 Jun 2023 A new historian and a computational sociologist have joined the DISSINET team The DISSINET has welcomed two new team members over recent months following the departure of a historian and a sociologist in autumn 2022.
