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Hearing voices: reapproaching medieval inquisition records — ZBÍRAL David; SHAW Robert Laurence John · Religions · 2022
InkVisitor — GitHub · 2023
How formulaic are inquisition records? Measuring lexical richness and text similarity in a corpus of Latin notarial documents — Zenodo · 2024
Early heresy: heresy cases in the West, c.1000–c.1150 — DISSINET website · 2023
Mapping Waldensian "synagogues" at the Trial of Antonio Galosna, Piedmont 1388 — Zenodo · 2023
Behind Closed Doors: Women and the Inquisition. What was there to fear from a medieval inquisition? For the inquisitors themselves, quite a lot. — History Today · 2023
Modeling systems of sentencing in early inquisition trials: Crime, social connectivity, and punishment in the register of Peter Seila (1241–2) — SHAW Robert Laurence John; HAMPEJS Tomáš; ZBÍRAL David · Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History · 2023
Toponymic surnames and the spatiality of heresy prosecutions: Peter Seila’s register of sentences from the Quercy region (Languedoc), 1241–1242 — SHAW Robert Laurence John; SIKK Kaarel; ZBÍRAL David · Humanities and Social Sciences Communications · 2024
Analisi delle reti sociali delle comunità valdesi germanofone nell’ultimo scorcio del XIV secolo — VÄLIMÄKI Reima; ZBÍRAL David · Storia dei valdesi 1 : Come nuovi apostoli (secc. XII-XV) · 2024
Heresy and occupation in Bologna around 1300 — DISSINET website · 2024
Endogenous dynamics of denunciation: evidence from an inquisitorial trial — ESTÉVEZ NAVARRO José Luis; SALIHOVIĆ Davor; SGOUREV Stoyan V. · Pnas Nexus · 2024
Gender, kinship, and other social predictors of incrimination in the inquisition register of Bologna (1291–1310): Results from an exponential random graph model — ZBÍRAL David; RICCARDO Katia; HAMPEJS Tomáš; BRYS Zoltán · PLOS One · 2025
Nevíra ve věku víry (Scepticism, materialism and atheism in inquisition records) — Re:vize · 2024
Bridging digital history methods and source criticism: A research agenda for the study of inquisition records — ZBÍRAL David; SIKK Kaarel; SHAW Robert Laurence John · Acta Historica Tallinnensia · 2025
Uncovering patterns in dissident interactions among late medieval German Waldensians using social network analysis — VÄLIMÄKI Reima; ZBÍRAL David · Social network analysis and medieval history · 2025
Gender Bias in Medieval Inquisitions and its Place in Shaping Knowledge about the Heterodox — SALIHOVIĆ Davor; ESTÉVEZ NAVARRO José Luis · Social Science History · 2026
Historical Geocoding Assistant — Adam Mertel; David Zbíral; Zdeněk Stachoň; Hana Hořínková · SoftwareX · 2021
Occupation, socioeconomic status, and dissidence in Bologna around 1300 — RICCARDO Katia; ZBÍRAL David; BRYS Zoltán · Reti Medievali Rivista · 2025
Narratives of religious dissidence in medieval inquisition records: computing the representation and sequencing of crimes in Peter Seila’s register of sentences (1241–2) — SHAW Robert Laurence John; HAMPEJS Tomáš; ZBÍRAL David · Historical research · 2026
How inquisitive was medieval inquisition? A network-analytical approach to information flow in the trials for Brandenburg-Pomeranian Waldensians (late 14th c.) — SIKK Kaarel; VÄLIMÄKI Reima; ZBÍRAL David · Digital Scholarship in the Humanities · 2026
Syntactic-semantic capture of historical texts as a platform for source-critical analysis: telling the story of a premodern heresy trial with Computer-Assisted Semantic Text Modelling (CASTEMO) — SHAW Robert Laurence John; SUBA Katalin; HAMPEJS Tomáš; ZBÍRAL David · Digital Scholarship in the Humanities · 2026
From texts to structured data: Building knowledge graphs through Computer-Assisted Semantic Text Modelling (CASTEMO) — David Zbíral; Robert L. J. Shaw; Petr Hanák; Tomáš Hampejs; Adam Mertel · DISSINET website · 2026
DISSILEX: A lexico-semantic network and valency lexicon for medieval Latin — Zenodo · 2026
Tabular dataset of medieval heresy inquisition records: Dates and places of composition, inquisitors, manuscripts, editions and other metadata — David Zbíral; Saku Pihko; Reima Välimäki; Katia Riccardo; Stanislaw Banach; Katalin Suba; Robert L. J. Shaw · Zenodo
Medieval inquisition records: Interactive map — David Zbíral; Saku Pihko; Reima Välimäki; Katia Riccardo; Stanislaw Banach; Katalin Suba; Robert L. J. Shaw; Peter Ondrejka · DISSINET website · 2026
DISSILOC: A dataset of geocoded locations mentioned in medieval inquisition registers — David Zbíral; Robert L. J. Shaw; Katia Riccardo; Daniela Wallnerová; Davor Salihović; Reima Välimäki · Zenodo · 2026
Locations mentioned in medieval inquisition registers: Interactive map — David Zbíral; Robert L. J. Shaw; Katia Riccardo; Davor Salihović; Daniela Wallnerová; Reima Välimäki; Peter Ondrejka · DISSINET website · 2026
Prosecuting anti-inquisitorial unrest in Bologna, 1299: A data-oriented approach — Stanislaw Banach; Katia Riccardo; David Zbíral · Journal of Medieval History · 2024
“The Wicked Things You Want to Hear”: Accusation, Coercion and Investigation in the Vaudois Witch Trials, 1448–1465 — Larissa de Freitas Lyth; Robert L. J. Shaw; Kaarel Sikk; David Zbíral · Speculum
Correlates of Contestation Against Religious Authorities in Medieval Inquisitorial Testimonies — Zoltán Brys; Robert L. J. Shaw; Gideon Kotzé; David Zbíral · Journal of Cultural Analytics · 2026
Social network analysis of a disappeared Christianity: The Apostolic movement in Italy around 1300 — Katia Riccardo; David Zbíral; Zoltán Brys; Robert L. J. Shaw · De Gruyter's "Introductions to Digital Humanities" book
Mapping religious belief in medieval inquisitorial registers using semantic profiling — Tomáš Hampejs; Robert L. J. Shaw; David Zbíral · De Gruyter: Introductions to Digital Humanities
Intensification of life-threatening semantic domains in anti-heretical hate propaganda between 1000 and 1150: A quantitative analysis — Zoltán Brys; Lidia Hinz-Wieczorek; David Zbíral · Social Science History
A stylometric analysis of the relative strength of notarial and inquisitorial stylistic markers in the Bologna inquisition register (1291–1310) — Gideon Kotzé; Katia Riccardo; David Zbíral · Digital Studies / Le champ numérique
From Documents to Knowledge Graphs: Modelling Papal Records as Data — Robert L. J. Shaw; David Zbíral · Clio: Essays in History, Archaeology and Art History
DISSILEX: A lexico-semantic network and valency lexicon for medieval Latin — David Zbíral; Gideon Kotzé; Soňa Hudíková; Katia Riccardo; Katalin Suba; Stanislaw Banach; Robert L. J. Shaw · Journal of Open Humanities Data
Did the language of medieval inquisition records become more expansive over time? A diachronic lexical richness perspective on inquisition registers from Languedoc and Italy, 1231–1400 — Gideon Kotzé; David Zbíral; Robert L. J. Shaw; Zoltán Brys · Open Research Europe · 2026
Between fasting and religious suicide: A data-oriented reconsideration of the practice of endura in medieval heterodox Christianity — David Zbíral; Katalin Suba · Historical Research
Sequencing the Cathar consolament: Explaining variation in a medieval initiation ritual through sequence analysis — Katalin Suba; David Zbíral; Tomáš Hampejs · Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Male- and Female-Reported Apostolic Social Ties in the Bologna Inquisition Register, 1291–1310 — Zoltán Brys; Katia Riccardo; David Zbíral; Robert L. J. Shaw · Advances in Complex Systems - A Multidisciplinary Journal · 2026
Multilayer Social Network Data on Apostolic Dissidents in the Bologna Inquisition Register (1291–1310) — Katia Riccardo; David Zbíral; Zoltán Brys · Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences · 2025
Beyond notarial standardization: A sequence analysis of ritual descriptions in the FFF Register of the Carcassonne inquisition (1243–1244) — Katalin Suba; Tomáš Hampejs; David Zbíral
Sacred time, judicial time: A quantitative inquiry into relations between the timing of inquisitorial processes and the liturgical rhythm — Katalin Suba; Robert L. J. Shaw; David Zbíral · Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Tabular dataset for "Syntactic-semantic capture of historical texts as a platform for source-critical analysis: Telling the story of a premodern heresy trial with Computer-Assisted Semantic Text Modelling (CASTEMO)" — Robert L. J. Shaw; Gideon Kotzé; Katia Riccardo; Katalin Suba; Tomáš Hampejs; David Zbíral · Zenodo · 2026
Dataset for "Narratives of religious dissidence in medieval inquisition records: Computing the representation and sequencing of crimes in Peter Seila's register of sentences (1241–2)" — Robert L. J. Shaw; Tomáš Hampejs; David Zbíral · Zenodo · 2025
Incriminations in the inquisition register of Bologna (1291–1310): Network data and code — Katia Riccardo; David Zbíral; Zoltán Brys; Tomáš Hampejs · Zenodo · 2024
Cathar Endura data — David Zbíral; Katalin Suba · Figshare · 2024
A transcription of a papal inquest of depositions in front of John Galand and William of Saint-Seine (fonds Doat, vol. 32, fol. 163r-243r) — Denisa Wallnerová; David Zbíral · Zenodo · 2025
A transcription of four inquisition depositions (1301-1305) on beliefs and the way of life of the Autier group (fonds Doat, vol. 34, fol. 93v-103r) — Denisa Wallnerová; David Zbíral · Zenodo · 2025
A transcription of sentences of Ferrer and William Raymond (fonds Doat, vol. 21, fol. 313r-323v) — Denisa Wallnerová; David Zbíral · Zenodo · 2025
A transcription of sentences of William Arnold and Stephen of Saint-Thibéry (fonds Doat, vol. 21, fol. 143v-185r) — Denisa Wallnerová; David Zbíral · Zenodo · 2025
A transcription of the inquisition register of John Galand and William of Saint-Seine, 1283-1302 (fonds Doat, vol. 26, fol. 79r-316v) — Denisa Wallnerová; David Zbíral · Zenodo · 2025
DISSICON: DISSINET lexico-semantic network of concepts and actions — David Zbíral; Robert L. J. Shaw; Katia Riccardo; Katalin Suba; Davor Salihović · Zenodo · 2025
Dataset and R code for correlates of contestation against religious authorities in medieval inquisitorial testimonies — Zoltán Brys; Robert L. J. Shaw; Gideon Kotzé; David Zbíral · Harvard Dataverse · 2026
Houses of heretics: Cathar religious houses in Languedoc, 1175–1244 — David Zbíral (data); Adam Mertel (map) · DISSINET website · 2019
Lollards, 1414–1522 — Jan Král (digitizing/geocoding); Adam Mertel (map) · DISSINET website · 2019
Religious houses in the Czech Lands — Hana Hořínková (data); Peter Ondrejka (map); David Zbíral (dataset design and supervision) · DISSINET website · 2023
Data supplement for stylometric analysis of the relative strength of notarial and inquisitorial stylistic markers in the Bologna inquisition register (1291-1310) — Gideon Kotzé; Katia Riccardo; David Zbíral · Zenodo · 2026

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2024

Toponymic surnames and the spatiality of heresy prosecutions : Peter Seila’s register of sentences from the Quercy region (Languedoc), 1241–1242

SHAW Robert Laurence John SIKK Kaarel ZBÍRAL David

Peer-reviewed scientific article

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, year: 2024, volume: 11, edition: February 2024, DOI

2023

Modeling systems of sentencing in early inquisition trials : Crime, social connectivity, and punishment in the register of Peter Seila (1241–2)

SHAW Robert Laurence John HAMPEJS Tomáš ZBÍRAL David

Peer-reviewed scientific article

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, year: 2023, volume: 56, edition: 3, DOI

2022

Hearing voices : reapproaching medieval inquisition records

ZBÍRAL David SHAW Robert Laurence John

Peer-reviewed scientific article

Religions, year: 2022, volume: 13, edition: 12, DOI

2021

Historical Geocoding Assistant

MERTEL Adam ZBÍRAL David STACHOŇ Zdeněk HOŘÍNKOVÁ Hana

Peer-reviewed scientific article

SoftwareX, year: 2021, volume: 14, edition: June, DOI

2019

Mining multiple sources of historical data : The example of a standardized dataset of medieval monasteries and convents in France

MERTEL Adam ZBÍRAL David

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Proceedings of the International Cartographic Association, year: 2019, DOI

PublicationsArticles, data, editions, maps, tools

Publications by MUNI Information system

2024

Toponymic surnames and the spatiality of heresy prosecutions : Peter Seila’s register of sentences from the Quercy region (Languedoc), 1241–1242

2023

Modeling systems of sentencing in early inquisition trials : Crime, social connectivity, and punishment in the register of Peter Seila (1241–2)

2022

Hearing voices : reapproaching medieval inquisition records

2021

Historical Geocoding Assistant

2019

Mining multiple sources of historical data : The example of a standardized dataset of medieval monasteries and convents in France

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