Descrizione del progetto
Svelare i dettagli della storia medievale europea
La storia medievale dell’Europa è ricca di varie culture religiose e inquisitorie: una loro comprensione ci aiuterà ad acquisire un quadro migliore di come la cultura europea in generale sia stata modellata nel corso delle ere. Generalmente, la storia di tali culture viene raccontata attraverso casi di studio e analisi socio-storiche che spesso possono omettere importanti dettagli. Il progetto DISSINET, finanziato dall’UE, cerca di fornire una comprensione senza precedenti di dissidenti religiosi e culture inquisitorie nell’Europa medievale. Lo farà attraverso un’analisi computazionale dettagliata sul modo in cui tali culture sono state formate e registrate. L’obiettivo consiste nello svelare i dettagli nascosti del modo in cui l’interazione umana può modellare un ambiente sociale più ampio e nel gettare luce sul passato medievale dell’Europa.
Obiettivo
The DISSINET project will provide an unprecedented, “networked” understanding of dissident religious and inquisitorial cultures in medieval Europe through a vast computational analysis of the social, spatial, and textual relationships by which they were formed and recorded. Rather than treating these cultures through narrative case-study or traditional social-historical analysis, our approach will build upwards from the microscopic details of human interactivity towards a broader social picture. Historiographical impressions of the social grounding and spread of religious dissidence, the specifics of dissident cultures as well as their shared characteristics, and the confrontation between inquisitors and suspects will thus be challenged from a previously inaccessible perspective. To achieve this goal, we will manually collect data on every aspect of dissident and inquisitorial interactivity from inquisition records that cover thousands of individuals from the 13th to the 16th centuries. The resulting database will be large-scale and yet retain every nuance of our sources. Our data model will allow us to employ cutting-edge computational techniques, well-adapted to uncover hitherto undetected and historically significant patterns: these methods will include social network analysis, geographic information science, and computational text analysis. In its broader implications, the project will open up a significant new dimension in the conversation between history and the social sciences. It will offer the former a novel approach to challenging historical material, and the latter pre-modern perspectives on the bottom-up emergence of larger social phenomena such as covert networks, repression, and shared religious culture. Finally, DISSINET will make a significant contribution to the digital humanities, providing a powerful digital toolkit for research into multifaceted human phenomena that retains and makes use of the complexities of textual sources.
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ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantIstituzione ospitante
601 77 Brno
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