Dr. Robert Shaw (DPhil from the University of Oxford, awarded in 2015, thesis on The Celestine Monks of France c. 1350-1450: Monastic Reform in an Age of Schism, Council and War) was selected as the best candidate for a postdoctoral position in the DISSINET team. He joins the team on 1 May 2019, and we are excited to welcome him. His research project within DISSINET will focus on Languedoc as well as selected cases from Germany.
DISSINET has developed an interactive map of the occupations, dissident religious affiliations, and locations of residence of nearly 900 persons suspected of heresy in the inquisition register of Bologna, 1291–1310.
Building upon the invaluable work of modern editors, the DISSINET project is building a textual corpus of medieval inquisitorial material, which now contains 15 registers, totals over 1.6 million tokens, and ranges from North-Central Italy through Languedoc to England, and from the 1230s until the 1520s.
