This time, the hosts of Middle Ages differently podcast series, Ivan Foletti and Jiří Macháček, decided to focus on Digital Humanities and in their #9 episode talked with David Zbíral about "Cathar heresy between zeroes and ones".
Besides the methods and the potential of computer assisted research of middle Ages and the specificities of Cathars, topics of inquisition practices and deponent strategies were discussed and similarities with present times were pointed out.
The podcast is available on youtube here (in Czech).
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.
