David Zbíral & Robert L. J. Shaw have published the most up-to-date summary of the rich debate on the uses of medieval inquisition records. In a last, substantial section, the article explains the core of DISSINET's research agenda concerning the social, spatial, and discursive patterns of medieval dissidence, inquisition, and heresy trial records. The article is published in Religions.
David Zbíral & Robert L. J. Shaw outline the main directions of DISSINET's research agenda (Dissident Networks Project, https://dissinet.cz) in the recently published article "Hearing Voices: Reapproaching Medieval Inquisition Records" (https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13121175) in a broad context of debates on the uses of heresy trial records. The piece was published in Religions (Scopus Q1). DISSINET has been silent for a while, but a lot has been happening - enjoy the read.
In a new article, Anestis Karasaridis and Aleš Chalupa used epidemiological SIR/SEIR models to simulate different pathogen scenarios and found that the death toll might not have been as high as ancient sources suggest.
Examining an extensive register of inquisition from Bologna, 1291-1310, we found that women tended to incriminate other women, while men incriminated across genders.
