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. Jana Gryc
- Mgr. Tomáš Hampejs, Ph.D.
- Bc. et Bc. Danica Ježová
- Gideon Jozua Kotzé, PhD
- Mgr. František Novotný, Ph.D.
- Katia Riccardo, M.A., Ph.D.
- Davor Salihović, Doctor of Philosophy
- Robert Laurence John Shaw, Doctor of Philosophy
- Kaarel Sikk, M.A., Docteur en Géohraphie
- Katalin Suba, MA
- Martin-Petr Tlustoš
- Mgr. Daniela Wallnerová
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: 84
2026
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A Social Network Analysis of the Apostolic movement in Italy around 1300
Rok: 2026, druh: Další prezentace na konferencích
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Cultures of Communication among the Coventry Lollards at the Turn of the 16th Century : A Social Network Analysis Approach
Rok: 2026, druh: Další prezentace na konferencích
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Gender Bias in Medieval Inquisitions and its Place in Shaping Knowledge about the Heterodox
Social Science History, rok: 2026, ročník: 50, vydání: 1, DOI
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Gendered Temporalities: How Women and Men Remembered Temporal Information Differently in a Trial with German Waldensians (Stettin, 1393–94)
Rok: 2026, druh: Další prezentace na konferencích
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How inquisitive was medieval inquisition? A network-analytical approach to information flow in the trials for Brandenburg-Pomeranian Waldensians (late 14th c.)
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, rok: 2026, ročník: 41, vydání: 1, DOI
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Narratives of religious dissidence in medieval inquisition records : computing the representation and sequencing of crimes in Peter Seila’s register of sentences (1241–2)
Historical research, rok: 2026, ročník: 99, vydání: 284, DOI
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Networks of Heterodox Belief in Fribourg, 1430
Rok: 2026, druh: Další prezentace na konferencích
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Sacred Time, Judicial Time : A Quantitative Inquiry into Relations Between the Timing of Inquisitorial Processes and the Liturgical Rhythm
Rok: 2026, druh: Další prezentace na konferencích
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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)
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, rok: 2026, ročník: 2026, vydání: 00-fqag016, DOI
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Using LLMs to uncover hidden patterns in the contestation of religious authorities across a corpus of medieval inquisition records, 1243–1522
Rok: 2026, druh: Další prezentace na konferencích