Informace o projektu
Networks of Dissent: Computational Modelling of Dissident and Inquisitorial Cultures in Medieval Europe
(DISSINET)
- Kód projektu
- 101000442
- Období řešení
- 9/2021 - 8/2026
- Investor / Programový rámec / typ projektu
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Evropská unie
- Horizon 2020
- ERC (Excellent Science)
- Fakulta / Pracoviště MU
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Filozofická fakulta
- prof. PhDr. David Zbíral, Ph.D.
- Stanisław Leon Banach, MA
- Zoltán Brys, MA
- Larissa de Freitas Lyth, M.A.
- José Luis Estévez Navarro, M.Sc., M.A.
- Mgr. Tomáš Hampejs, Ph.D.
- Gideon Kotzé, PhD
- Katia Riccardo, MA
- Davor Salihović, Doctor of Philosophy
- Robert Laurence John Shaw, Doctor of Philosophy
- Kaarel Sikk, M.A., Docteur en Géohraphie
- Katalin Suba, MA
This project will deliver a major breakthrough in the understanding of the social and spatial aspects of dissident religious cultures and their repression in medieval Europe. Our approach combines the close reading of inquisitorial trial records that cover more than 20,000 individuals from the 13th to 16th centuries, the modelling of these texts in a richly structured database, and computational techniques well-adapted to uncover hitherto undetected and historically significant patterns within these sources: social network analysis, geographic information science, and quantitative text analysis. Retaining qualitative as well as quantitative detail, we will use these approaches to address major historical and theoretical questions concerning the nature of dissident religious cultures in medieval Europe, their social microstructure and spatiality, their specifics as well as general characteristics, inquisitorial records and procedures, and the interaction and information flow between inquisitors and deponents. The project will also open up a significant new dimension in the conversation between history, the social sciences, and the digital humanities. On the theoretical level, we will target the bottom-up emergence of larger social phenomena such as authority, collective action and shared religious culture from local interactions between particular actors. On the methodological level, we propose a novel way for storing and retrieving the complex and often fuzzy data derived from challenging historical sources, as well as a largely unprecedented use of computational modelling to analyse the detail they contain. We will thereby provide the research community with a coherent and powerful digital toolkit for historical research into complex human phenomena, one that unlocks otherwise inaccessible insights on the societies of the past through computational techniques and that simultaneously puts source-critical questions at the heart of analysis.
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Publikace
Počet publikací: 55
2025
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Gender, kinship, and other social predictors of incrimination in the inquisition register of Bologna (1291–1310): Results from an exponential random graph model
PLOS One, rok: 2025, ročník: 20, vydání: 2, DOI
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Network data extraction from inquisition records using Large Language Models : preliminary results
Rok: 2025, druh: Další prezentace na konferencích
2024
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Actions of men and women in medieval dissidence : corpus data from twenty-five inquisition registers
Rok: 2024, druh: Vyžádané přednášky
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Actions of women vs. actions of men in medieval inquisition records : a corpus-based exploration
Rok: 2024, druh: Další prezentace na konferencích
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Advanced network analysis of incriminations in the Bologna inquisition register (1291–1310)
Rok: 2024, druh: Vyžádané přednášky
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Ajalooliste allikate avamine masinöppe vahenditega
Rok: 2024, druh: Další prezentace na konferencích
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Analisi delle reti sociali delle comunità valdesi germanofone nell’ultimo scorcio del XIV secolo
Storia dei valdesi 1 : Come nuovi apostoli (secc. XII-XV), vydání: Vyd. 1, rok: 2024, počet stran: 20 s.
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Describing “heretication” : comparing the accounts of the Cathar Consolamentum
Rok: 2024, druh: Další prezentace na konferencích
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Detecting inquisitorial signal in the inquisition register of Bologna (1291-1310) through machine learning
Rok: 2024, druh: Další prezentace na konferencích
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Digital hermeneutics of the inquisitorial protocols from the 14th century : network exploration, inquisitorial strategy and the meaning of the source
Rok: 2024, druh: Další prezentace na konferencích