Jean-Paul Rehr
Research fellow at Università di Torino working on the ERC project, "Democracies of the Alps. Issues, practices and ideals of politics in mountain communities, 1300-1500" (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101077793), a natively digital history project where I am the DH lead. I am at the same time writing a monograph from my research tentatively titled, "Making Heretics. Inquisitors, Historians and the Oldest Surviving Inquisitorial Registry, Toulouse MS 609 (1245-46)".
My own ongoing research project, the edition of Toulouse MS 609, is found at https://medieval-inquisition.huma-num.fr/.
I successfully defended my dissertation on Oct 2, 2023 entitled, "Heresy, Politics, and Inquisition in the County of Toulouse. Edition and Study of Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse, ms. 609: The Register of the “Great Inquisition” at Toulouse, 1245-46" / « Hérésie, politique et inquisition dans le comté de Toulouse. Édition et étude du ms. 609 de la Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse: le registre de la "grande enquête inquisitoriale" à Toulouse, 1245-46 »
Supervisors: Julien Théry
My own ongoing research project, the edition of Toulouse MS 609, is found at https://medieval-inquisition.huma-num.fr/.
I successfully defended my dissertation on Oct 2, 2023 entitled, "Heresy, Politics, and Inquisition in the County of Toulouse. Edition and Study of Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse, ms. 609: The Register of the “Great Inquisition” at Toulouse, 1245-46" / « Hérésie, politique et inquisition dans le comté de Toulouse. Édition et étude du ms. 609 de la Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse: le registre de la "grande enquête inquisitoriale" à Toulouse, 1245-46 »
Supervisors: Julien Théry
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Thesis Chapters by Jean-Paul Rehr
Advisor: Julien Théry, Université Lumière Lyon 2
Jury:
Cécile Caby (Sorbonne Université);
Marie Dejoux (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne);
Jean-Louis Gaulin (Université Lumière Lyon 2);
Claire Lemercier, (CNRS, CSO Sciences Po Paris);
Laurent Macé (Université Jean Jaurès Toulouse 2);
R.I. Moore (University of Newcastle);
Mark Gregory Pegg (Washington University, St. Louis)
Articles by Jean-Paul Rehr
Exposition will include ms 609 on display to the general public for the first time.
Info: https://saintraymond.toulouse.fr/cathares-toulouse-dans-la-croisade/
Medieval sermons brim with tens of thousands of exempla, the “exemplary short stories” frequently used to convey belief and morals to the faithful. Long considered a class of dogmatic, religious, and moral texts, they were mostly studied as a subgroup of folktales and fables in literary studies. With the “anthropological turn” in historical research, new attention was paid to exempla as sources of cultural and historical insight, notably by the historian Jacques Le Goff and his student-inheritors.
ThEMA, a database of medieval exempla, began life in the 1990s in the hands of these inheritors, and has grown and transformed since then. It currently holds over 12,000 indexed exempla from the long “global Middle Ages”, stretching from Latin Europe to Byzantium to Asia, and drawing from Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and Buddhist sources. All exempla are carefully encoded and assigned metadata, and linked to keywords and thesauri, to enable researchers to undertake a variety of inquiries into these cultural artifacts. The most recent transformation of ThEMA into XML-TEI format, within a searchable database that provides powerful interfaces, has permitted the project to fully engage with FAIR data standards to ensure longevity and broader usability of the data for researchers and the general public.
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Les sermons médiévaux renferment des milliers d’exempla, ou histoires exemplaires, souvent utilisés pour transmettre doctrine et morale religieuses aux fidèles. Ils ont longtemps été considérés comme une part négligeable des textes dogmatiques et moraux, et l’attention s’est focalisée sur eux en tant que sous-ensemble des contes populaires et des fables dans les études littéraires. Avec le tournant anthropologique, une nouvelle approche des exempla en tant que sources culturelles et historiques a été développée, notamment par l’historien Jacques Le Goff et ses héritiers.
ThEMA, une base de données des exempla médiévaux, a commencé sa vie dans les années 1990 entre les mains de ces héritiers, et elle s’est développée et transformée jusqu’à nos jours. Elle comporte actuellement plus de 12 000 exempla indexés couvrant un long Moyen Âge s’étendant de l’Europe latine à Byzance et l’Asie, provenant de sources chrétiennes, juives, islamiques et bouddhistes. Chaque exemplum est soigneusement encodé, accompagné de métadonnées et relié à des mots-clés et des thésaurus, afin de permettre aux chercheurs de lancer une grande variété de requêtes au sein de ce corpus d’artéfacts culturels. La plus récente transformation de ThEMA a été sa conversion au format XML-TEI au sein d’une base de données offrant de puissantes interfaces qui ont permis au projet de s’engager entièrement dans les standards des « FAIR data », afin d’assurer longévité et usage élargi des données pour les chercheurs et le grand public.
Midi, et de la plus grande série unitaire et continue de procès-verbaux avant le célèbre registre de Jacques Fournier, ce manuscrit a été relativement peu étudié dans sa globalité et jamais édité intégralement. La présente contribution examine d’abord les raisons pour lesquelles les historiens, depuis le XIX e siècle, se sont souvent contentés de citer le manuscrit 609 de façon fragmentaire. On présente ensuite de nouvelles perspectives de compréhension de la « grande inquisition », qui dérivent de l’édition numérique complète, en cours de réalisation par l’auteur.
[Double-blind peer reviewed]
Conference Presentations, Talks by Jean-Paul Rehr
DemAlps Ideals and Practices of Local Medieval Politics, I: Communities Forming and Fracturing in Late Medieval Italy - A Comparative Approach to the Intersection and Conflict of Local Lay and Ecclesiastical Institutions.
Joined on this panel by Marta Gravela and Ian Forrest, with Samuel Cohn as respondent.
Finally, some projects (Distinguo, de Heresi) have been under development for some time, while some others have been recently finished (BD ELME) or are still under construction (PASSIM: Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages; Tikkoun Sofrim, PredMedDB).
All these projects raise some questions, which we think might be interesting to debate with some of the experts in the field:
– What is the future for sermons studies in the Digital Humanities?
– Is there a standard for editing medieval sermons (in TEI/XML)? If not, should we create one?
– How can we fund these projects? Is there a way to make ‘low budget’ digital projects?
– Should data be public? How can we make the data public?
Advisor: Julien Théry, Université Lumière Lyon 2
Jury:
Cécile Caby (Sorbonne Université);
Marie Dejoux (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne);
Jean-Louis Gaulin (Université Lumière Lyon 2);
Claire Lemercier, (CNRS, CSO Sciences Po Paris);
Laurent Macé (Université Jean Jaurès Toulouse 2);
R.I. Moore (University of Newcastle);
Mark Gregory Pegg (Washington University, St. Louis)
Exposition will include ms 609 on display to the general public for the first time.
Info: https://saintraymond.toulouse.fr/cathares-toulouse-dans-la-croisade/
Medieval sermons brim with tens of thousands of exempla, the “exemplary short stories” frequently used to convey belief and morals to the faithful. Long considered a class of dogmatic, religious, and moral texts, they were mostly studied as a subgroup of folktales and fables in literary studies. With the “anthropological turn” in historical research, new attention was paid to exempla as sources of cultural and historical insight, notably by the historian Jacques Le Goff and his student-inheritors.
ThEMA, a database of medieval exempla, began life in the 1990s in the hands of these inheritors, and has grown and transformed since then. It currently holds over 12,000 indexed exempla from the long “global Middle Ages”, stretching from Latin Europe to Byzantium to Asia, and drawing from Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and Buddhist sources. All exempla are carefully encoded and assigned metadata, and linked to keywords and thesauri, to enable researchers to undertake a variety of inquiries into these cultural artifacts. The most recent transformation of ThEMA into XML-TEI format, within a searchable database that provides powerful interfaces, has permitted the project to fully engage with FAIR data standards to ensure longevity and broader usability of the data for researchers and the general public.
- - - -
Les sermons médiévaux renferment des milliers d’exempla, ou histoires exemplaires, souvent utilisés pour transmettre doctrine et morale religieuses aux fidèles. Ils ont longtemps été considérés comme une part négligeable des textes dogmatiques et moraux, et l’attention s’est focalisée sur eux en tant que sous-ensemble des contes populaires et des fables dans les études littéraires. Avec le tournant anthropologique, une nouvelle approche des exempla en tant que sources culturelles et historiques a été développée, notamment par l’historien Jacques Le Goff et ses héritiers.
ThEMA, une base de données des exempla médiévaux, a commencé sa vie dans les années 1990 entre les mains de ces héritiers, et elle s’est développée et transformée jusqu’à nos jours. Elle comporte actuellement plus de 12 000 exempla indexés couvrant un long Moyen Âge s’étendant de l’Europe latine à Byzance et l’Asie, provenant de sources chrétiennes, juives, islamiques et bouddhistes. Chaque exemplum est soigneusement encodé, accompagné de métadonnées et relié à des mots-clés et des thésaurus, afin de permettre aux chercheurs de lancer une grande variété de requêtes au sein de ce corpus d’artéfacts culturels. La plus récente transformation de ThEMA a été sa conversion au format XML-TEI au sein d’une base de données offrant de puissantes interfaces qui ont permis au projet de s’engager entièrement dans les standards des « FAIR data », afin d’assurer longévité et usage élargi des données pour les chercheurs et le grand public.
Midi, et de la plus grande série unitaire et continue de procès-verbaux avant le célèbre registre de Jacques Fournier, ce manuscrit a été relativement peu étudié dans sa globalité et jamais édité intégralement. La présente contribution examine d’abord les raisons pour lesquelles les historiens, depuis le XIX e siècle, se sont souvent contentés de citer le manuscrit 609 de façon fragmentaire. On présente ensuite de nouvelles perspectives de compréhension de la « grande inquisition », qui dérivent de l’édition numérique complète, en cours de réalisation par l’auteur.
[Double-blind peer reviewed]
DemAlps Ideals and Practices of Local Medieval Politics, I: Communities Forming and Fracturing in Late Medieval Italy - A Comparative Approach to the Intersection and Conflict of Local Lay and Ecclesiastical Institutions.
Joined on this panel by Marta Gravela and Ian Forrest, with Samuel Cohn as respondent.
Finally, some projects (Distinguo, de Heresi) have been under development for some time, while some others have been recently finished (BD ELME) or are still under construction (PASSIM: Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages; Tikkoun Sofrim, PredMedDB).
All these projects raise some questions, which we think might be interesting to debate with some of the experts in the field:
– What is the future for sermons studies in the Digital Humanities?
– Is there a standard for editing medieval sermons (in TEI/XML)? If not, should we create one?
– How can we fund these projects? Is there a way to make ‘low budget’ digital projects?
– Should data be public? How can we make the data public?
At IMC Leeds 2018 I will present the first findings from the edition, taken from my study "Vidit cum hereticis", under the conference rubric of "memory". The paper will demonstrate how the two inquisitors Bernard de Caux and Jean de Saint-Pierre used the memories of deponents not to obtain confessions, but to target specific groups of people who had no special relationship to "heresy" but rather a specific social-political role. Ms. 609 and The Great Inquisition has been long misunderstood by historians as a "general survey of faith and heresy" and as such a religious matter. I will demonstrate that it was no such thing.
The image is a high-resolution PDF generated from Gephi: once downloaded, the reader can enlarge and examine all accusations and names in detail. The graph represents the weighted accusations of various heretical acts - lines represent the paths of accumulated accusations. The graph uses the Eigenvector centrality algorithm to calculate the focus of incriminations: large, red/pink/white circles reflect people who were at the center of incriminations.
The digital edition of Ms. 609 will appear this summer at http://medieval-inquisition.huma-num.fr , the digital humanities database of the CNRS. The edition is written in TEI-XML.
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The registry of the largest inquisition of the middle ages, Ms. 609 de la Bibliothèque de Toulouse, contains thousands of depositions which report the activities and relationships of people from around Toulouse. This registry is regarded by many historians as proof of how heresy spread through families (lignages), a claim which is based on an epistemology of "heresy as disease" taken from the 12th century medieval polemicists. Social network analysis provides tools which can allow us to test this idea.
My presentation will demonstrate two SNA approaches to ms. 609, side by side, producing radically different results: the first uses the traditional epistemology of disease to give meaning to ms. 609; the second uses the technical apparatus of SNA but breaks with the disease epistemology to render new insights and overturn our understanding of accusations at the Great Inquisition.
While the site is centred on MS 609, other documents are being added which shed light on the social context of the prosecution of heresy by inquisitors, including MS 9992 (extant sentences from this inquisition); depositions from the Fonds Doat; oaths, charters, wills, letters from the Trésor des Chartes and the departmental archives of the Haute-Garonne, Aude, inter alia.
All documents are linked by people featured in them.
The site features:
- Native digital edition of the manuscript transcribed in Latin and translated into English
- Latin edition viewable in two formats: diplomatic and interpretive
- High-resolution images of the original manuscript
- Searchable index of all documents
- Searchable index of all people and places
- Function for comparing stories between depositions
- All data hyperlinked between documents, people, places
- Full-text search of Latin documents
All documents are made available under Creative Commons licence, and may be downloaded in original TEI-XML format, printable PDF and other formats for data analysis.
The site is now launched in "beta", with ongoing corrections to the dual-language interface, and elaboration of editorial position statements. Users are encouraged to report bugs, errors and problems through the site's simple reporting interface.
This poster examines the celebrated manuscript PA 36 of the Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, the so-called "Cathar manuscript" which is claimed to contain various Cathar rituals and liturgy.
This poster discusses in broad terms the origins of the inquisition into heresy and complex position of early inquisitors. Readers are challenged to some source criticism: looking for evidence of Cathars via a folio from Bibliothèque de Toulouse MS 609, the registry of the Great Inquisition at Toulouse.
In the last two decades, historians, archaeologists, and philologists of ancient, medieval, and early modern societies have profited from XML-technologies to encode and store their corpora and data sets. However, most of this work has occurred at the level of individual XML files, with analysis, publication, and display generated through non-XML technologies (PHP, Python, etc.), often depending on other specialist programmers. Due to a lack of training opportunities, digital humanists have not been able to leverage their XML skills into advanced query methods and applications.
This XQuery and eXist-db week-long intensive is offered to humanists from all countries who want to capitalize on their existing knowledge of XML and XPATH in order to develop their own XML databases and applications. By the end of this free, 5-day intensive course, the attendees will be able to use XQuery and eXist-db to:
-> query and transform large corpora and datasets
-> develop XML applications
-> publish documents and data to the Web
-> make data available through APIs
-> and communicate with system administrators about XML database and application implementation