Actions des femmes et des hommes dans les registres d’inquisition : Approche quantitative
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The debate on the importance of women and men in religious dissent in medieval Europe, as well as their potentially different roles, remains unresolved. This paper offers a quantitative response, drawing on various medieval records from the inquisitions against heresy. Based on a full-text corpus of approximately 2 million words, consisting of digitized and manually cleaned editions of twenty-five inquisition registers covering the period from the 1230s to the 1520s, from Italy to England, the paper examines the frequency of use of verbs to describe the actions of women, in comparison with those used for men, in order to determine whether certain categories of reported actions were more typical of men than women. It will thus attempt to shed new light on the classic historiographical question of the importance and possible specific roles of women (and men) in the daily life of dissident religious cultures in the Middle Ages. The paper relates the results to the potential gender bias of the inquisitors. |
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