A transcription of four inquisition depositions (1301-1305) on beliefs and the way of life of the Autier group (fonds Doat, vol. 34, fol. 93v-103r)

This is a working transcription of four depositions four depositions in front of an unknown inquisitor (1301-1305), with witness names anonymised, from Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds Doat, vol. 34, fol. 93v-103r. The depositions concern Cathar beliefs and way of life; the content betrays deponents from the milieu of Peter Autier and his revival of dissidence of the Good Men in Languedoc. 

The text we publish here should not be considered a critical edition, but facilitates access to unpublished Doat material, and does that in a digital and reusable form (see licence). We appreciate suggestions for corrections wherever you spot errors. The format is plain text, without critical apparatus or other editorial markup. It can thus be directly used - besides human reading - for computational text analysis. The sections are separated with three empty paragraphs, thus allowing to work with the text segmented into meaningful parts. Folio breaks are marked in the text by markup such as <note type="foliation" content="96r"/>, which needs to be removed or given special treatment in computational text analysis (it sometimes appears also in the middle of words).

The transcriptions were done by Daniela Wallnerová (editor), who holds 95% contribution, and supervised and revised by David Zbíral, who holds 5% contribution. The transcription has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 101000442, project “Networks of Dissent: Computational Modelling of Dissident and Inquisitorial Cultures in Medieval Europe”).