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Dr. David Zbíral – curriculum vitae and publications

Contact

Masaryk University
Faculty of Arts
Department for the Study of Religions
Arna Nováka 1
602 00 Brno
Czech Republic
E-mail: see the Information System of Masaryk University

Education and academic qualifications

• 2014: docent (corresponds approximately to associate professor, Dozent, directeur de recherches) in the Study of Religions (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic); thesis Forms and Boundaries of Religiosity in Inquisitorial Records, 1270-1330 (in Czech).
• 2008: Ph.D. in the Study of Religions (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic); thesis Qui duo ponunt principia: The Role of Dualism in the History of Thought on the Cathars (in Czech).
• 2006: PhDr. (Advanced State Examination) in the Study of Religions (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic); thesis “Dualism” in Scholarly Accounts of Catharism (in Czech).
• 2005: M.A. in Study of Religions and French Language and Literature (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic); thesis The Charter of Niquinta and the Cathar Meeting at Saint-Félix (1167) (in Czech).

Positions

• 2014-present: Associate Professor, Department for the Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University.
• 2008-2014: Assistant Professor, Department for the Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University.
• 2011-2012: Supervisor, Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University.
• 2008-2010: IT Specialist, Department of Special Informatics, Support Centre for Students with Special Needs, Masaryk University.

Main fields of interest

• Historical anthropology and interdisciplinary history.
• Historical network research, social network analysis.
• Medieval Christianity.
• Religious nonconformism.
• Catharism.
• History of manuscripts, manuscript studies.
• Medieval inquisition, inquisitorial records.
• Individual religiosity in inquisitorial records.
• Translations of sources from Latin and old Occitan.
• Computer lexicography, markup languages.

Grants, research projects and scholarships

Major research grants

• 2019-2023: EXPRO Excellence Grant from the Czech Science Foundation. Project No. GX19-26975X “Dissident Religious Cultures in Medieval Europe from the Perspective of Social Network Analysis and Geographic Information Systems (DISSINET)”. Granted sum: 17,3 million CZK (ca 667,000 €).
• 2013: “Research in Paris” grant from the Mairie de Paris. Research project: “Scholastic Rationality and Its ‘Other’: Searching for the Place of Cathar Dualism in Theological Discourses on Good and Evil, Society, and the World, 1160-1300”. Granted sum: 15,000 €.
• 2012-2015: research grant from the Czech Science Foundation. Project No. P401/12/0657 “Sources for the Study of Dissident Religious Movements in Medieval Western Christianity with Special Focus on Catharism”. Granted sum: 1,291,000 CZK (ca 52,629 €).
• 2009-2011: postdoctoral research grant from the Czech Science Foundation. Project No. 401/09/P191 “Inquisitional Concepts, Classifications and Identities and Their Legacy in the Scholarly Tradition”. Granted sum: 894,000 CZK (ca 34,380 €).

Other research grants and scholarships

• 2017: internal development project of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University (code ROZV/25/FF/ERCZ/2017) for the preparation of an ERC Consolidator Grant application. Granted sum: 108 000 CZK (ca. 4000 €).
• 2009: scholarship from the French government. Research project: “Rethinking the Cathar Consolament”. Granted sum: 855 € and accommodation (4,340 €).
• 2008: scholarship from the project “Podpora internacionalizace doktorského studia a zahraničních zkušeností mladých pracovníků bezprostředně po získání Ph.D.” (investigator: doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Vybíral, Ph.D.). Granted sum: 20,000 CZK (ca 830 €).
• 2008: scholarship from the French government. Research project: “Norm and Deviation in Inquisitional Registers from Southwestern France”. Granted sum: 1,800 € and accommodation (7,250 €).
• 2007-2008: research grant from the Rector’s Scheme of Research Support. Project: “The Inquisitional Concept of Heresy and Its Resonance in the Contemporary Historiography”) Granted sum: 47,000 CZK (ca 1,670 €).
• 2007: research grant from the Dean of the Faculty of Arts’ Scheme of Research Support. Project: “The Inquisitional Models of Abnormality: ‘Alternative’ Sexual Morals and Their Regulation in the Inquisitional Register of Jacques Fournier (1318-1325). Granted sum: 40,000 CZK (ca 1,420 €).
• 2006-2007: research grant from the Rector’s Scheme of Research Support. Project: “The Construction of ‘Cathar Heresy’ in Polemical Sources”. Granted sum: 74,000 CZK (ca 2,500 €).
• 2006: scholarship from the French government. Research project: “Critical Approach to Sources of the History of Catharism”. Granted sum: 1,540 € and accommodation (6,600 €).
• 2003: student research grant from the University Development Fund No. 663/2003. Project: “Holy Grail: The Symbol and Its Resonance”. Granted sum: 58,000 CZK (ca 1,930 €).
• 2002-2004: participation in the research project No. 333/2001 “Translation of the New Testament apocrypha II” funded by the Grant Foundation of the Charles University (Prague).

Teaching grants

• 2013: teaching grant from the University Development Fund “Innovation of the Course ‘Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Medieval Western Christianity’”. Granted sum: 112,000 CZK.
• 2012: teaching grant from the University Development Fund “Innovation of the Course ‘Analysis of Textual Subjectivities in the Study of Religions’”. Granted sum: 116,000 CZK.
• 2011: teaching grant from the University Development Fund “Innovation of the Course ‘Christianity I’ and ‘Proseminar for Christianity I’”. Granted sum: 126,000 CZK.
• 2010: teaching grant from the University Development Fund “Evolution of the Christian Cult”. Granted sum: 88,000 CZK.
• 2009: teaching grant from the University Development Fund “New Course ‘Sanctity and Authority in the History of Christianity’”. Granted sum: 77,000 CZK.
• 2007: teaching grant from the Jan Hus Educational Foundation (project No. 0604/NIF “Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Medieval West”). Granted sum: 68,000 CZK (ca 2,400 €).

Other scholarships

• 2007: scholarship from the Jan Hus Educational Foundation. Granted sum: 60,000 CZK (ca 2,180 €).
• 2007: scholarship from the project “Podpora konkurenceschopnosti doktorských studentů a post-doktorských pracovníků jako členů výzkumných týmů” (investigator: doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Vybíral, Ph.D.). Granted sum: 10,000 CZK (ca 360 €).
• 2006: scholarship from the Jan Hus Educational Foundation. Granted sum: 60,000 CZK (ca 2,180 €).

Internships

• 2014, 1 February to 31 July: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Centre de Recherches Historiques, Groupe d’anthropologie scolastique), Paris. Postdoctoral research project “Scholastic Rationality and Its ‚Other‘: Searching for the Place of Cathar Dualism in Theological Discourses on Good and Evil, Society, and the World, 1160-1300” supported by a “Research in Paris” grant from the Mairie de Paris.
• 2009, 1-28 February: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Research project “Rethinking the Cathar consolament” supported by the French government and supervised by Jean-Claude Schmitt.
• 2008, 1 January to 29 February: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Research project “Norm and deviation in inquisitional registers from southwestern France” supported by the French government and supervised by Jean-Claude Schmitt.
• 2006, 18 September to 15 November: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Research project “Critical approach to sources of the history of Catharism” supported by the French government and supervised by Jacques Chiffoleau.

Teaching

• Christianity I.
• Digital Humanities in Medieval Studies.
• Orthodoxy and Heresy in Medieval Western Christianity.
• Religion in Historical and Comparative Perspectives.
• Doctoral Seminar I and III.
• Christianity on Wikipedia.
• Sexuality in the History of Christianity.
• Development of Christian Cult.
• Religious Rationalities: Readings.
• Reading of Religious Texts in Latin I.
• B.A. Thesis Seminar I-II.
• M.A. Thesis Seminar I-II.

Supervised dissertations

Glomb, Tomáš, Impact of Factors Involved in the Early Spread of the Isiac Cults Across the Aegean Sea: A Quantitative Evaluation, Brno: Masarykova univerzita 2018.

Guest lectures

• 2018, 27 Oct: „L’endura: Relecture des sources“, Journées d’étude “Aux sources du catharisme”, Mazamet (Palais des Congrès), CIRCAED and Musée du catharisme de Mazamet.
• 2018, 25. 10.: “Le manuscrit du ‘Liber de duobus principiis’ et du Rituel de Florence et ses lecteurs: La genèse d’un livre dissident”, Journées d’étude “Aux sources du catharisme”, Carcassonne (Cité de Carcassonne, Château Comtal), CIRCAED and Monuments nationaux.
• 2017, 17 to 19 May: “The Reliability of Inquisitional Records: Source Criticism”, “The Reliability of Inquisitional Records: Discourse Analysis”, and “Cathar Ritual Suicide? Reconsidering the Endura”, Nijmegen, Radboud University Nijmegen.
• 2013, 19 Nov: “Problems in the Study of Religious Dissent in Medieval Europe”, Leipzig, University of Leipzig.
• 2013, 13 Mar: “‘Alternativní’ sexuální morálky ve středověkém křesťanství”, Pardubice, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Pardubice and the Czech Association for the Study of Religions.
• 2013, 8 Mar: “The Holy Spirit Incarnate: Guglielma of Milan and Her Followers”, Bern, University of Bern (course “Orthodoxy and Heresy in Medieval Christianity”).
• 2013, 7 Mar: “Narratives about Medieval Heresy: Searching for Origins and Explanations II”, Bern, University of Bern (course “Orthodoxy and Heresy in Medieval Christianity”).
• 2013, 6 Mar: “Narratives about Medieval Heresy: Searching for Origins and Explanations I”, Bern, University of Bern (course “Orthodoxy and Heresy in Medieval Christianity”).
• 2013, 5 Mar: “Introduction: Medieval Christianity and the Problem of Heresy”, Bern, University of Bern (course “Orthodoxy and Heresy in Medieval Christianity”).
• 2011, 6 Dec: “‘Alternativní’ sexuální morálky ve středověkém křesťanství”, Prague, Charles University and the Czech Association for the Study of Religions.
• 2011, 9 Sept: “Bogomils and Cathars: Real or Imagined Genealogical Link?”, Nijmegen, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.
• 2011, 15 Apr: “The Problem of Manichean-Bogomil-Cathar Relationship”, Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam.
• 2011, 12 Apr: “Current Research in ‘Alternative’ Sexual Morals in Medieval Inquisitorial Records”, Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam.
• 2011, 12 Apr: “Medieval Christian Dualisms: An Introduction”, Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam.
• 2010, 1 Nov: “Podoby a dějinné proměny křesťanských iniciačních obřadů” [Forms and Historical Changes of Christian Initiation Rituals], Prague, Charles University and the Czech Association for the Study of Religions.
• 2009, 20 Nov: “Živoucí světci a modely autority v křesťanství” [Living Saints and the Models of Authority in Christianity], Prague, Charles University and the Czech Association for the Study of Religions.
• 2009, 12 Nov: “Náboženství předislámské Arábie” [Religion of the Pre-Islamic Arabia], Brno, Baraka and Moravské zemské museum.
• 2007, 27 Mar: “Secundum ritum hereticorum: Rituální život katarských skupin v Itálii a jihozápadní Francii ve 13. století” [Secundum ritum hereticorum: The ritual life of Cathar groups in Italy and southwestern France in the 13^th century], Prague, Charles University.
• 2006, 9 Nov: “Comment devient-on un saint hérétique ? Deux procès posthumes d’Armanno Pungilupo”, Paris, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

Conferences and workshops

International

• 2018, 1-5 July: International Medieval Congress 2018: Memory, Leeds (UK), Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds. Paper “The Participation of Women (and Some Men) in Languedocian Catharism: A Network Science Perspective II”. Co-organization of panels “Network Analysis for Medieval Studies, I-III”, “Memories of Heresy and Counter-Heresy, I-III”, and “Memory and Inquisitio, I-II”.
• 2018, 11-12 April: Heretical Self-Defence, Nottingham (UK), The Medieval Heresy and Dissent Research Network at University of Nottingham. Invited paper “The Ultimate Flight: Revisiting the Cathar Endura”.
• 2017, 3-6 July: International Medieval Congress 2017: Otherness, Leeds (UK), Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds. Paper “The Participation of Women (and Some Men) in Languedocian Catharism: A Network Science Perspective”. Organization of the panels “Inquisitional Records from the Perspective of Social Network Analysis”, “Inquisitors’ Knowledge at the Crossroads of Various Cultural Resources, I-II”, and “Biblical Exegesis and the Boundaries of Orthodoxy, I-II”.
• 2017, 30 May – 4 June: XXXVII Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, Beijing (China). Paper “The Role of Women and Men in the Structures of Dissident Christianity in Medieval Languedoc from the Perspective of Social Network Analysis”. Organization of the panel “Historical Network Research”.
• 2016, 4-7 July: International Medieval Congress 2016: Reform and Renewal, Leeds (UK), Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds. Paper “Between Fasting and Ritual Suicide: Reconsidering the Cathar Endura”. Organization of the panel “Religious Communities and Food, I-III”.
• 2016, 28 June – 1 July: Relocating Religion, Helsinki (Finland), European Association for the Study of Religions. Paper “Ascetics Getting Wild: A Reinterpretation of Fasting to Death in One Medieval Religious Culture”. Organization of the panel “Reconfiguring Reformism in Medieval Europe: Practices and Representations”.
• 2015, 23-29 Aug: XXI IAHR World Congress 2015: Dynamics of Religion: Past and Present, Erfurt (Germany), International Association for the History of Religions. Paper “Medieval Inquisitors’ Theory of Sects”.
• 2015, 6-9 Jul: International Medieval Congress 2015: Reform and Renewal, Leeds (UK), Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds. Paper “‘In novissimis temporibus sustinere debent multa scandala et tribulationes et persecutiones’: Evidence for Apocalyptic Catharism in Firenze, Conventi soppressi, MS J II 44”. Organization of the panel “Religious Nonconformism II-IV”.
• 2014, 7-10 Jul: International Medieval Congress 2014: Empire, Leeds (UK), Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds. Paper “Games with Names: Advances in, and Shortcomings of the Debate on the Invention of Heresy”. Organization of the panel “Heresy and Repression, I-III” and of the panel discussion “Righteous Persecution, or Doing Justice to the Inquisitors”. Participation in the panel discussion “Are Theoretical Models Useful for the Study of Medieval Religion, Heresy, and Dissent?”.
• 2014, 10-14 May: Religion and Pluralities of Knowledge, Grøningen (Netherlands), European Association for the Study of Religions. Paper “Theorizing the Repression of Religious Dissent in Medieval Europe: The State of Research and Its Prospects”. Organization of the panel “Violence and Repression in Christianity: Discourses and Practices I-II”.
• 2013, 25-27 Nov: Religions: Fields of Research, Methods and Perspectives, Cracow (Poland), Instytut Religioznawstwa, Uniwersytet Jagielloński. Paper “Narratives about the Beginnings of Cathar Groups: Historical Accounts or Polemical Fantasies?”.
• 2013, 3-6 Sept: Religion, Migration and Mutation, Liverpool (UK), European Association for the Study of Religions. Paper “Being Fair Towards the Dead? Historians and Power Relations in Research into Inquisitional Records”.
• 2013, 1-4 Jul: International Medieval Congress 2013: Pleasure, Leeds (UK), Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds. Paper “Forming Identity and Legitimizing Leadership: Why the 12^th-13^th Century Narratives about the History of Cathar Groups are Not Pure Polemical Fantasy”. Organization of the panel “Goodbye to Heretics? Discussing Polemical and Inquisitional Discourses on Heresy, I-III”, and of the round-table discussion “Perspectives in the Study of Medieval Heresies and Inquisitions”.
• 2012, 29 Nov – 1 Dec: Towards a Symmetrical Approach: The Study of Religions After Postmodern and Postcolonial Criticism, Brno (Czech Republic), Department for the Study of Religions, Masaryk University, and the Czech Association for the Study of Religions. Paper “Should Historians Care about Symmetry? The Example of Research into Medieval Inquisitional Records”.
• 2012, 23-26 Aug: Ends and Beginnings, Stockholm (Sweden), European Association for the Study of Religions. Paper “Identity-Construction, Leadership and the Uses of History in the Narratives about the Beginnings of the Cathars (12th-13th Century)”.
• 2012, 9-12 Jul: International Medieval Congress 2012: Rules to Follow (or Not), Leeds (UK), Institute for Medieval Studies. Paper “Cathars as Cultural Waste: A Global Theory of Cathar Heresy as ‘the Other’ of a New Social Order”. Organization of the panel “Constructing Social Order and Its ‘Other’: Heresy and Formation of Persecuting Societies in Medieval Europe”.
• 2012, 1-3 Mar: Past, Present, and Future in the Scientific Study of Religion, Brno, Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion (LEVYNA). Paper “‘Poor of Christ’ Not So Poor: A Paradox of the Cathar Heresy”.
• 2011, 18-22 Sept: New Movements in Religion: Theories and Trends, Budapest (Hungary), European Association for the Study of Religions. Paper “Theories and Methods for a Case Study Research in Individual Religiosity and Religious Bricolage in Medieval Inquisitional Registers”.
• 2011, 11-14 Jul: International Medieval Congress 2011: Poor... Rich, Leeds (UK), Institute for Medieval Studies. Paper “‘Poor of Christ’ Not So Poor: A Paradox of the Cathar Heresy”. Co-organization of the panel “Spiritual Poverty and Lay People, I-II”.
• 2010, 16-18 Dec: Twenty Years After: Secularization and Desecularization in Central and Eastern Europe, Brno (Czech Republic), ISORECEA (International Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe Association). Paper “Introduction to the Panel ‘Inspiring the Present: What Historical Cases Can Teach Us about Method and Theory in the Study of Religions’”.
• 2010, 15-22 Aug: Religion: A Human Phenomenon, Toronto (Canada), International Association for the History of Religions. Paper “The Norm-Deviation Model Reconsidered: ‘Alternative’ Sexual Morals Judged by the Inquisition”.
• 2009, 14-18 Sept: Religion in the History of European Culture, Messina (Italy), European Association for the Study of Religions. Paper “Mapping Religious Diversity: The Inquisitorial Classifications of Heresy”.
• 2009, 15-17 May: 1209-2009. Catharisme: Une histoire à pacifier?, Mazamet (France), Association de Valorisation du Patrimoine Mazamétain. Paper “La Charte de Niquinta et le rassemblement à Saint-Félix: État de la question”.
• 2008, 7-11 Sept: Time of Decline, Time of Hope: Scientific, Cultural and Political Engagement of the Study of Religions, Brno (Czech Republic), European Association for the Study of Religions. Paper “The Inquisitorial Concept of Religious Group and Its Resonance in European Historiography”.
• 2008, 24 May: Le catharisme européen: un mouvement structuré?, Mazamet (France), Association de Valorisation du Patrimoine Mazamétain. Paper “Revenir sur les sources: Le lien présumé entre le bogomilisme et le catharisme”.
• 2007, 9-11 Oct: Various Interpretations of Religions: Methods & History, Pardubice (Czech Republic), CERES – Central European Religious Studies. Paper “Fingerprinting the Concept of Religion: The Legacy of Medieval Inquisitors”.

Local

• 2012, 16 Nov: Inkvizice, hereze a reformace v pozdním středověku, Prague (Czech Republic), Centre for Medieval Studies. Paper “Inkviziční záznamy jako pramen historického bádání: Možnosti, omezení, strategie”.
• 2008, 3-4 Dec: Šírenie náboženských a nadprirodzených predstáv, Bratislava, Slovenská spoločnosť pre štúdium náboženstiev pri SAV a Ústav etnológie SAV. Paper “Problémy konceptualizace a predikce přenosu náboženských představ: Příklad ‘dualistických mýtů’”.
• 2008, 27 Nov: Inkwizycja papieska w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej w perspektywie porównawczej, Lublin (Poland), Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. Paper “Beginnings of the Inquisition in southwestern France”.
• 2005, 11-12 Oct: Náboženství a tělo [Religion and the Body], Brno (Czech Republic), CERES – Central European Religious Studies. Paper “Relikvie, nebo hnijící maso? Spor o výklad mrtvol Pietra Parenza a Armanna Pungilupa”.

Membership in organizing and programme committees

• 2018, 10 to 13 Sept: Historical Network Research 2018, Brno (Czech Republic), Department for the Study of Religions, Masaryk University, and the Czech Association for the Study of Religions (programme committee).
• 2012, 29 Nov to 1 Dec: Towards a Symmetrical Approach: The Study of Religions After Postmodern and Postcolonial Criticism, Brno (Czech Republic), Department for the Study of Religions, Masaryk University, and the Czech Association for the Study of Religions (organizing committee).
• 2010, 16-18 Dec: Twenty Years After: Secularization and Desecularization in Central and Eastern Europe, Brno (Czech Republic), ISORECEA – International Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe Association (organizing committee).
• 2008, 7-11 Sept: Time of Decline, Time of Hope: Scientific, Cultural and Political Engagement of the Study of Religions, Brno (Czech Republic), European Association for the Study of Religions (organizing committee).

Participation in workshops and training schools

• 2014, 26 Apr: workshop The Connected Past: Networks in Archaeology and History (Paris, The Connected Past network).
• 2014, 31 Mar to 4 Apr: Transmission of Texts: New Tools, New Approaches (Paris, Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes).

Membership of editorial and advisory boards

• 2017-present: member of the Editorial Board of the journal Religio: Revue pro religionistiku.
• 2015-2018: member of the Editorial Board of the journal Pantheon: Religionistický časopis / Journal for the Study of Religions.
• 2014-2018: member of the Advisory Board of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts’ Scheme of Research Support.
• 2014-present: member of the Editorial Board of the series “Christentum und Dissidenz” of the LIT Verlag (Berlin – Münster – Wien – Zürich – London).
• 2009-2016: managing editor of Religio: Revue pro religionistiku, journal of the Czech Association for the Study of Religions.
• 2006-2009: member of the Editorial Board of journal Heresis: Revue semestrielle d’histoire des dissidences médiévales.

Membership and offices in academic associations

• 2008-present: General Secretary of the Czech Association for the Study of Religions.
• 2012-present: co-opted member of the Collectif International de Recherche sur le Catharisme et les Dissidences (CIRCAED).
• 2005-2009: member of the Centre d’Études Cathares (Carcassonne, France).
• 2002-present: member of the Czech Association for the Study of Religions, member association of the IAHR (International Association for the History of Religions) and the EASR (European Association for the Study of Religions).

Prizes

• 2005: Rector’s Prize for the best student at Masaryk University in the M.A. programme.
• 2004: 1^st prize in the national and 2^nd prize in the Czech-Slovak competition to find the best academic work by students of the Study of Religions.
• 2001: 3^rd prize in the competition to find the best academic work by students of the Study of Religions.

Publications

Books

Zbíral, David, Největší hereze: Dualismus, učenecká vyprávění o katarství a budování křesťanské Evropy [The Greatest Heresy: Dualism, Scholarly Narratives about Catharism and Christian Europe in the Making], Praha: Argo 2007.

Chapters in books

Zbíral, David, “O Otázkách Janových” [On the Questions of John], “Otázky Janovy” [Questions of John], in: Jan A. Dus (ed.), Novozákonní apokryfy III: Proroctví a apokalypsy, Praha: Vyšehrad 2007, 198-203, 217-229.

Articles in English and French

Zbíral, David, “Heretical Hands at Work: Reconsidering the Genesis of a Cathar Manuscript (Ms. Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. soppr. J.II.44)”, Revue d’histoire des textes 12, 2017, 261-288.

Brenon, Anne – Zbíral, David, “Le codex cathare occitan de Lyon: Un livre de Pèire Autier?”, Archives ariégeoises 8, 2016, 9-37.

Zbíral, David, “A Compilation from Old Testament Sapiential Books in the Cathar Manuscript of the Liber de duobus principiis: Critical Edition with Commentary”, Graeco-Latina Brunensia 20/1, 2015, 149-173. Also available online at https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/133972.

Zbíral, David, “Définir les ‘cathares’: Le dualisme dans les registres d’inquisition” [Defining the “Cathars”: Dualism in the Inquisitorial Registers], Revue de l’histoire des religions 227/2, 2010, 195-210.

Zbíral, David, “The Norm-Deviation Model Reconsidered: Four Cases of ‘Alternative’ Sexual Morals Judged by the Inquisition”, Journal of Religion in Europe 3/2, 2010, 215-240. Also available online at http://www.david-zbiral.cz/articles/zbiral-norm-deviation-model-reconsidered.pdf.

Zbíral, David, “La Charte de Niquinta et les récits sur les commencements des églises cathares en Italie et dans le Midi” [The Charter of Niquinta and the Narratives about the Beginnings of Cathar Churches in Italy and Languedoc], Heresis: Revue semestrielle d’histoire des dissidences médiévales 44-45, 2006, 135-162. Also available online at http://www.david-zbiral.cz/articles/zbiral-la-charte-de-niquinta-et-les-commencements-des-eglises-cathares-en-italie-et-dans-le-midi.pdf.

Zbíral, David, “La Charte de Niquinta: Un faux moderne?” [The Charter of Niquinta: A Modern Forgery?], Heresis: Revue semestrielle d’histoire des dissidences médiévales 42-43, 2005, 139-159. Also available online at http://www.david-zbiral.cz/articles/zbiral-la-charte-de-niquinta-un-faux-moderne.pdf.

Zbíral, David, “Les ‘esprits incrédules’ dans l’apocryphe bogomile Interrogatio Iohannis” [The “Distrustful Spirits” in the Bogomil Apocryphon Interrogatio Iohannis], Heresis: Revue semestrielle d’histoire des dissidences médiévales 42-43, 2005, 33-40. Also available online at http://www.david-zbiral.cz/articles/zbiral-les-esprits-incredules-dans-l-apocryphe-bogomile-interrogatio-iohannis.pdf.

Articles in Czech

Zbíral, David, “Mýtus, biblická exegeze a teologie v katarském křesťanství” [Myth, Biblical Exegesis and Theology in Cathar Christianity], Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 26/1, 2018, 3-30.

Zbíral, David – Brenon, Anne, “Nové poznatky o původu okcitánského katarského kodexu z Lyonu a tzv. ‘Lyonského řádu’” [New Findings about the Origin of the Occitan Cathar Codex of Lyon and the So-called “Ritual of Lyon”], Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 24/2, 2016, 189-217.

Zbíral, David, “Geneze rukopisu ‘Knihy o dvou principech’ a katarský výklad Bible v jeho doplňcích a margináliích” [Genesis of the Manuscript of the “Book of the Two Principles” and Cathar Biblical Exegesis in Its Additions and Marginalia], Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 23/1, 2015, 25-56.

Zbíral, David, “‘Suma o katarech a leonistech’ od Raniera Sacconiho (1250) a katarské skupiny ve druhé čtvrtině 13. století” [“Summa de catharis et leonistis” by Raniero Sacconi (1250) and Cathar Groups in the Second Quarter of the Thirteenth Century], Pantheon: Religionistický časopis 9/2, 2014, 54-86.

Stará, Lenka – Zbíral, David, “Utváření nekonformní náboženské skupiny v záznamech z inkvizičního procesu s oddanými svaté Vilemíny” [Formation of a Nonconformist Religious Group in the Records of the Inquisitorial Process with the Devotees of Saint Guglielma], Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 22/1, 2014, 55-88.

Zbíral, David, “Pojednání ‘O katarské herezi v Lombardii’ (1190/1215)” [The Treatise “On Cathar Heresy in Lombardy” (1190/1215)], Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 21/2, 2013, 215-247.

Zbíral, David, “Hédonistické křesťanství, sexuální morálka a vyjednávání o identitě: Případ Grazidy Lizierové (1320)” [Hedonistic Christianity, Sexual Morals and the Negotiation of Identity: The Case of Grazida Lizier (1320)], Pantheon: Religionistický časopis 8/2, 2013, 5-18.

Zbíral, David, “Sexuální morálka, koexistence norem a kontrola myšlení ve středověké Evropě: Případ Petra Vidala” [Sexual Morals, the Coexistence of Norms, and the Control of Thought in Medieval Europe: The Case of Peter Vidal], Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 21/1, 2013, 57-71.

Zbíral, David, “Inkviziční záznamy jako pramen historického bádání: Možnosti, omezení, strategie čtení” [Inquisitorial Records as a Historical Source: Their Potential, Limitations, and Strategies of Reading], Dějiny – teorie – kritika 9/2, 2012, 193-229.

Zbíral, David, “Případ nekonfesní religiozity ve středověké Evropě: Bompietro z Boloně” [A Case of Non-Confessional Religiosity in Medieval Europe: Bompietro of Bologna], Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 20/2, 2012, 219-232.

Zbíral, David, “Legislativní rámec, raný vývoj a průběh inkvizičních procesů ve 13.-14. století” [Legislative Framework, Early Development and Shape of the Inquisitorial Trials in the 13th-14th Centuries], Pantheon: Religionistický časopis 7/2, 2012, 3-16.

Zbíral, David, “Skeptický a materialistický proud ve středověkém křesťanství: Případ z Itálie 13. století” [Skeptical and Materialistic Current in Medieval Christianity: A Case from 13th-Century Italy], Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 20/1, 2012, 93-106.

Zbíral, David, “Současné bádání o středověké inkvizici: Stav, směřování, perspektivy” [Contemporary Research in the Medieval Inquisition: State, Directions, Perspectives], Český časopis historický 110/1, 2012, 1-19.

Zbíral, David, “Osobní religiozita, náboženství a členství: Případ Armanna ‘Pungilupa’ z Ferrary” [Individual Religiosity, Religion, and Membership: The Case of Armanno “Pungilupo” from Ferrara], Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 19/2, 2011, 147-178.

Zbíral, David, “Označení, typologie a genealogie středověkých herezí: Inspirace a výzvy pro teorii religionistiky” [Nomenclature, Typologies, and Genealogies of Medieval Heresies: Inspirations and Challenges to Theory in the Study of Religions], Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 18/2, 2010, 163-190.

Zbíral, David, “‘Bylo a bude, svět tak běží, že s ženou jiného, kdo může, leží’: ‘Alternativní’ sexuální morálky a jejich regulace v inkvizičním registru Jakuba Fourniera” [“Always Was and Always Will Be that a Man Will Sleep with Another’s Man Wife”: “Alternative” Sexual Morals and their Regulation in the Inquisitorial Register of Jacques Fournier], Dějiny – teorie – kritika 5/2, 2008, 191-217.

Zbíral, David, “Protikacířské pojednání “Odhalení albigenské a lyonské hereze’” [Anti-Cathar Treatise Revelation of the Albigensian and Lyonese Heresy], Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 16/2, 2008, 241-250.

Zbíral, David, “Náboženství předislámské Arábie” [Religion of the Pre-Islamic Arabia], Nový Orient 63/3, 2008, 17-20.

Zbíral, David, “Zrod ‘katarské sekty’: Ekbert z Schönau v boji proti herezi v Porýní” [Birth of the “Cathar Sect”: Ekbert of Schönau’s Struggle Against Heresy in Rhineland], Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 15/2, 2007, 211-231.

Zbíral, David, “Ve dva bohy věřiti nebudeš: Konstruování ‚katarského dualismu‘ v inkvizičních registrech” [Thou Shall Not Believe in Two Gods: On Construction of the “Cathar Dualism” in the Inquisitorial Registers], Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 15/1, 2007, 29-46.

Zbíral, David, “Niquintova listina a vyprávění o počátcích katarských církví v Itálii a jihozápadní Francii” [The Charter of Niquinta and the Narrations about the Beginnings of Cathar Churches in Italy and Southwestern France], Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 14/1, 2006, 19-40.

Zbíral, David, “Niquintova listina a historiografie katarství v 17. století” [The Charter of Niquinta and the Historiography of Catharism in 17^th Century], Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 13/2, 2005, 307-328.

Zbíral, David, “Za saracénským věštcem: Svědectví o lidovém islámu v inkvizičním registru Jakuba Fourniera” [A Saracene Oracle: Evidence of Popular Islam in the Inquisitorial Register of Jacques Fournier], Nový Orient 60/4, 2005, 17-19.

Zbíral, David, “Katarský komentář k Otčenáši ve Florentském obřadním spise” [The Cathar Gloss on Our Father in the Ritual of Florence], Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 12/2, 2004, 255-264.

Zbíral, David, “Vztah bogomilství a katarství” [The Relationship between Bogomilism and Catharism], Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 12/1, 2004, 77-94.

Zbíral, David, “Náboženství a internet” [Religion and Internet], Sacra 2/2, 2004, 47-57.

Zbíral, David, “Grálová queste jako pouť: Od středověku po Ottu Rahna” [The Grail Quest as a Pilgrimage: From the Middle Ages to Otto Rahn], Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 11/2, 2003, 163-184.

Zbíral, David, “Bogomilsko-katarský apokryf ‘Otázky Jana Evangelisty’” [The Bogomil-Cathar Apocryphon “Questions of John the Evangelist”], Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 11/1, 2003, 109-130.

Papers in conference proceedings

Zbíral, David, “La Charte de Niquinta et le rassemblement de Saint-Félix: État de la question” [The Charter of Niquinta and the Meeting at Saint-Félix: State of Research], “Édition critique de la Charte de Niquinta selon les trois versions connues” [Critical Edition of the Charter of Niquinta according to the Three Extant Versions], in: Anne Brenon (ed.), 1209-2009: Cathares: Une histoire à pacifier?, Portet-sur-Garonne: Loubatières 2010, 31-44, 44-52.

Zbíral, David, “Sibyla den Balle a role žen v jihozápadofrancouzském katarství na počátku 14. století” [Sibyla den Balle and the Role of Women in Southwestern-France Catharism at the Beginning of the 14^th Century], in: Martin Nodl (ed.), Zbožnost středověku, (Colloquia mediaevalia Pragensia 6), Praha: Filosofia 2007, 211-229.

Zbíral, David, “Relikvie, nebo hnijící maso? Spor o výklad mrtvol Petra Parenza a Armanna Pungilupa” [Relic or putrefying flesh? The Disputed Interpretation of the Corpses of Pietro Parenzo and Armanno Pungilupo], in: Iva Doležalová – Eleonóra Hamar – Luboš Bělka (eds.), Náboženství a tělo, (Central European Religious Studies 3), Brno: Masarykova univerzita – Praha: Malvern 2006, 89-94.

Editor’s introductions

Zbíral, David, “Editor’s Introduction to the Discussion”, in: Luther H. Martin – Donald Wiebe, Conversations and Controversies in the Scientific Study of Religion, Leiden – Boston: Brill 2016, 233-235.

Zbíral, David, “Introduction to the Discussion ‚Religious Studies as a Scientific Discipline: A Delusion?”, Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 20/1, 2012, 5-8.

Teaching materials

Zbíral, David, “Formování křesťanství a jeho vývoj do konce středověku” [Formation of Christianity and Its Development until the End of the Middle Ages], in: Náboženství světa I: Západ, Brno: Masarykova univerzita 2014, 79-86. Also available online at https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/xmlui/handle/11222.digilib/131663.

Zbíral, David, “Vývoj křesťanských rituálů” [The Development of Christian Rituals], in: Náboženství světa I: Západ, Brno: Masarykova univerzita 2014, 87-95. Also available online at https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/xmlui/handle/11222.digilib/131663.

Zbíral, David, “Křesťanská apokalyptika ve starověku a středověku” [Christian Apocalypticism in Antiquity and the Middle Ages], in: Konec světa, Brno: Masarykova univerzita 2014, 22-29. Also available online at https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/130644.

Zbíral, David, “Křesťanství a evropské identity” [Christianity and European Identities], in: Milan Fujda – Eva Klocová – Radek Kundt (eds.), Identity v konfrontaci: Multikulturní výchova pro učitele/učitelky SŠ a ZŠ, Brno: Masarykova univerzita 2011, 85-100.

Doležalová, Iva – Zbíral, David, “Křesťanství: Proměny na cestě staletími” [Christianity through the Ages], in: kol., Náboženství světa, Brno: Masarykova univerzita 2009, 35-40.

Book reviews

Zbíral, David, “James B. Given, Inkvizice a středověká společnost: Moc, kázeň a odpor v Languedocu”, Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 19/2, 2011, 266-268.

Zbíral, David, “Pilar Jiménez Sanchez, Les catharismes. Modèles dissidents du christianisme médiéval (XII^e-XIII^e siècles)”, Le Moyen Âge 115/3-4, 2010, 720-722.

Zbíral, David, “Pilar Jiménez Sanchez, Les catharismes: Modèles dissidents du christianisme médiéval (XII^e-XIII^e siècles)”, Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 17/2, 2009, 259-264.

Zbíral, David, “Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Montaillou, okcitánská vesnice v letech 1294-1324”, Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 14/2, 2006, 279-283.

Zbíral, David, “Bernhard Dietrich Haage, Středověké alchymie. Od Zósima k Paracelsovi”, Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 10/1, 2002, 127-129.

Zbíral, David, “A. Brenonová, Kataři. Život a smrt jedné křesťanské církve”, Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 9/2, 2001, 229-231.