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One of the most common ways inquisitors determined whom to investigate was by asking deponents to incriminate others. Interestingly, men and women exhibited different patterns when providing incriminations. Find out more in our recent study published in PLOS One: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Gender, kinship, and other social predictors of incrimination in the inquisition register of Bologna (1291–1310): Results from an exponential random graph model The medieval inquisition of heresy strongly relied on depositions, where witnesses were expected to report on the crimes of others and oneself. The resulting patterns of incrimination could be influen... https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0315467&?utm_id=plos111&utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=author