Maps and models | Department for the Study of Religions

Maps

Selected maps from our historical research

DISSINET

10 Apr 2024

Map: Heresy and occupation in Bologna around 1300

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.

DISSINET

19 Jul 2023

Mapping Waldensian “synagogues”

DISSINET has published a map of Waldensian gathering places in Piedmont.

DISSINET

22 May 2023

Map of Early Heresy cases in the West, c.1000-c.1150

The interactive map application presents dataset of early cases of heresy in the West, ca. 1000–1150, compiled from original Latin sources. It shows locations, heresy cases linked to those locations, and mentions in the sources, on which the description is based.

DISSINET

3 Oct 2022

Early Christian Baptisteries online

The most up-to-date geocoded dataset of 1,100+ Christian buildings from 3rd-12th century created with participation of DISSINET project now available online.

Models

Selected visualizations of datasets and research results

DISSINET

28 Mar

Structural insights into the inquisition register of Bologna (1291-1310)

Inquisition registers are an excellent source for studying the social organisation of medieval communities. Did the investigated people form one or a few cohesive social bodies of “heretical movements” – communities – or are they better understood as many unrelated cases of small groups or individuals who drew the attention of the inquisitors separately?

DISSINET

21 May 2024

Variation and order in the stories of guilt in Peter Seila's register: From Seeing to Belief

The inquisitional register of Peter Seila (1241-2, Languedoc) is evidence of a thorough investigation trying to weigh the extent of guilt carefully. Allow detailed counting of individual misdeeds of 649 people.