Dr David Zbíral has been awarded the 2020 Masaryk University Rector's Prize for an exceptional research outcome. The prize has been awarded for his book Baptized by Fire: Cathar Christianity in the Light of the Sources (Praha: Argo 2019), which represents an exceptional synthesis concerning Catharism with a selection of sources translated from Latin and Old Occitan originals.
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.
