José Luis Estévez
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José Luis Estévez
@jlestevez.bsky.social
Sociologist. Department of Economic and Social History, University of Helsinki. Hopping between Helsinki (FIN), Groningen (NLD) and Motril (ESP)
I am very grateful to @medievalists.bsky.social for sharing our article! It was a pleasure to adapt parts of our scholarly research for a wider readership.
September 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
🧵Recent historiography examines women's roles in the Inquisition. While women were central targets during the early modern witch hunts, our study investigates if a similar preoccupation with female suspects emerged in medieval religious persecutions.
doi.org/10.1017/ssh....

#Medieval #Inquisition
September 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
🧵During the Memoria Histórica movement's heyday, I asked about my family's Civil War past. Someone said: You might not like what you find. Cercas' book has helped me comprehend: Why bother facing a mundane truth when time and victimhood allow you to craft heroic family myths—like everyone else does?
December 26, 2024 at 10:57 AM
🧵Not long ago, @pnasnexus.org featured this paper!
doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

In this study, we analyze endogeneity in denunciation patterns, using records from a 14th-century inquisitorial trial in Piedmont (Italy), which involved around 250 local residents.
#socialnetworks #denunciation #inquisition
December 19, 2024 at 6:19 PM
🧵New paper out in Social Networks
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

Many social, political, and economic systems have a core-periphery structure. Borgatti & Everett’s model has been the go-to for identifying them in network data. Here, @carln.bsky.social & I build on this classic model with two refinements.
December 19, 2024 at 5:52 PM