Events and news

29 May

CEDRR talk: Analyzing non-local influence processes in dynamic networks

4:00 PM

DISSINET team invites you to a guest lecture on dynamic networks by Daniel Gotthardt from Universität Hamburg, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften. Colleagues unaffiliated with Masaryk University are welcome to attend online.

News by date

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.