The DISSINET team has kept busy in the new year! Even though it is only spring, we are eager to share several updates on funding opportunities, new publications, and an upcoming event.
Apply for funded opportunities with DISSINET - due 15 April
DISSINET is offering support to M.A. graduates applying for fully funded Ph.D. studies focusing on medieval anti-heretical hate speech using digital and quantitative methods. Proposals due 15 April.
DISSINET is searching for Ph.D. graduates inerested in applying for a post-doc position focusing on medieval anti-heretical hate speech using digital and quantitative methods. Proposals due 15 April.
In a study published in PLOSOne, we aimed at disentangling selected social factors of incrimination in the register of the inquisition in Bologna, 1291–1310. We used social network analysis and, more specifically, an Exponential Random Graph Model (ERGM) to assess the influence of four social predictors: gender, churchperson status, membership of the urban “middle class”, and kinship ties between incriminators and the incriminated.
Did the people investigated by the inquisition in Bologna form a few cohesive social bodies of “heretical movements” – communities – or are they better understood as many unrelated cases of small groups or individuals who drew the attention of the inquisitors separately?
The full data may be accessed at Riccardo, K., Zbíral, D., Brys, Z., & Hampejs, T. (2024). Incriminations in the inquisition register of Bologna (1291-1310): network data and code (Version 3) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13935366
