ZBÍRAL, David, Robert Laurence John SHAW, Tomáš HAMPEJS and Adam MERTEL. Towards the Social, Spatial, and Discursive Patterns in Medieval Inquisitorial Records : Data Collection and Analysis in the Dissident Networks Project. In International Medieval Congress. 2021.
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Original name Towards the Social, Spatial, and Discursive Patterns in Medieval Inquisitorial Records : Data Collection and Analysis in the Dissident Networks Project
Authors ZBÍRAL, David (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Robert Laurence John SHAW (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, belonging to the institution), Tomáš HAMPEJS (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Adam MERTEL (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution).
Edition International Medieval Congress, 2021.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 60304 Religious studies
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/21:00119054
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English inquisition; medieval heresy; computational modelling
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
This paper presents an approach to the collection of structured relational data which we have developed over the last 2.5 years in the Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET, https://www.dissinet.cz/). Our goal has been to devise a data model and environment capable of capturing the detail of inquisitorial records: the persons, groups, events, attitudes and physical objects they describe, the reported social, spatial and temporal relations between them, but also the modality of speech (negation, question, possibility etc.), the chain of information flow in inquisitorial records (e.g. who is reporting what and when, who is inculpating whom), and the different modes of trial interaction and recording. We thus preserve the semantic structure and detail of our sources. The data thus collected then allows us to analyze the social, spatial, and discursive patterns of inquisitorial records, heresy trials, and medieval religious dissent using a variety of computational and quantitative methods, such as social and spatial network analysis, geographic information science, and natural language processing. In addition, our data model and the experience gained from devising it will be of interest even beyond heresy and inquisition research, above all to historians keen to explore the possibilities of analysis of structured data while preserving the detail and the discursive patterns of their sources.
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GX19-26975X, research and development projectName: Nekonformní náboženské kultury ve středověké Evropě z pohledu analýzy sociálních sítí a geografických informačních systémů (Acronym: DISSINET)
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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