Robert L. J. Shaw

Robert L. J. Shaw
Masaryk University | MUNI · Department for the Study of Religions

Doctor of Philosophy

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Education
September 2008 - August 2014
University of Oxford
Field of study
  • History

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Our knowledge of the geography of medieval religious dissent and its repression in the Latin West is limited by a lack of systematic study of locational information in inquisition trial records. Spatial analysis of these rich details has the potential to help build a bottom-up picture of interaction between dissidents and inquisitors that moves bey...
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The Expositio in Apocalypsim by Alexander Minorita (also known as Alexander of Bremen, d. 1271) is the earliest complete mendicant Apocalypse commentary. It has been noted for its highly chronological interpretation of the path toward the end times and its witness to the early spread of Joachimite texts into central Europe. Our knowledge of the tra...
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Despite significant research on the techniques of repression employed by medieval inquisitors against religious dissidents, the case-level influences on the penances they meted out are understood only vaguely: the extent to which sentencing “systems” existed is unknown. To overcome this, we apply formal methods – an exploratory analysis supported b...
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The records of medieval heresy inquisitions have been a subject of controversy ever since their rediscovery by historians. The detail they convey of specific social interactions has continued to inspire generations of scholars, while the coercive conditions of their production have placed strong caveats over their interpretation. This article offer...
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This article presents a proposal for data collection from textual resources in history and the social sciences that we call Computer-Assisted Semantic Text Modelling (CASTEMO). The CASTEMO data model and data collection workflow is based on detailed, yet flexible semantic encoding of the original natural-language syntactic structure and wording: tr...
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The mendicant Order of Minims was founded by a Calabrian hermit and healer, St. Francesco di Paola (1416-1507), who left his homeland behind in 1483 to attend to the ailing Louis XI in France at the latter’s request. They received papal approval for a new “rule” (despite the injunction of the Fourth Lateran Council against such developments in 1215...
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This article argues that despite an official royal ban on discussing solutions to the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) in France from 1381 to approximately 1392, conversation continued, employing new literary and rhetorical forms and new back-channels of communication. Two major discourses are examined: that of Hildegardian prophecy and one that to...
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The Celestine monks of France represent one of the least studied monastic reform movements of the late Middle Ages, and yet also one of the most culturally impactful. Their order - an austere Italian Benedictine reform of the late thirteenth century, which came to be known after the papal name (Celestine V) of its founder (Pietro da Morrone / St Pe...
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The processes by which ideas, objects, texts and political thought and experience moved across boundaries in the Middle Ages form the focus of this book, which also seeks to reassess the nature of the boundaries themselves; it thus appropriately reflects a major theme of Dr Malcolm Vale's work, which the essays collected here honour. They suggest w...

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