27 February 1511
Research Group

A set of speculative psychosocial simulations of the largest peasant and popular insurrection of Renaissance Italy. Focusing on the semi-militaristic formations of a peasantry on Carnival, 27 February 1511. This is a regional, semi-militaristic factional aggression against satellite rule, perceived foreign influences, and local grievances.

We intend to build a multi-levelled, agent-based models of group processes because we believe this particular Carnival provides enough source material to speculate on the existence of a crowd semiotics.

Colleagues and associates

Edward Muir
James Baillie
Francesca Bartoletti
Patricia Fortini Brown
Vinicius Marina Carvahlo
Umberto Cecchinato
Robert Houghton
Jeremiah McCall
Markus Hildegard Mendrebø.

Select bibliography

  • Bianco, Furio. 1511: The "Cruel Fat Zobia": Peasant Revolts and Noble Feuds in Friuli between the 15th and 16th Centuries. Vol. 4. Menocchio Historical Studies Center, 1995.

  • Bianco, Furio. “Mihi Vindictam: Aristocratic Clans and Rural Communities in a Feud in Friuli in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries.” In Crime, Society and the Law in Renaissance Italy, edited by Trevor Dean and Kate J. P. Lowe, 249–274. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

  • Madden, Amanda. “Menocchio Mapped: Italian Microhistory and the Digital Spatial Turn.” In Zoomland: Exploring Scale in Digital History and Humanities, edited by Florentina Armaselu and Andreas Fickers, 77–96. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024.

  • Mindrebø, Markus Eldgard. “Simulating Medieval Connections: Grand Strategy Games and Social Network Analysis.” Journal of Historical Network Research 10 (2024): 92–121. https://jhnr.net/articles/81/files/660bbe5c7c0b0.pdf.

  • Muir, Edward. Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.