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2025
Anastasia Theologou - Plotinus' Sympatheia and Its Philosophical Foundations: Towards a Comprehensive Approach
Emy Joy - The Paravur Dialogues- Introducing The First Inter-Religious Dialogues From The Early Modern Kerala: Theological Debates Between Two Jews, A Christian, A Pagan, And A Muslim
2024
Dunja Milenkovic - Competence and Competitivity of the Byzantine Intellectual: The Case of Theodore Prodromos
Mariya Kiprovska - The Role of the Frontier Elites in the Ottoman State-Building Processes: A Case Study on the Mihaloglu Family
Juan Bautista Juan-Lopez - Manuel Gabalas: Biography, Intellectual Network, Works and Thought
Olga Kalashnikova - Preaching the Passion in Fourteenth-Century Bohemia: The Rhetoric of Good Friday Sermons
Anna Kinde - The Function of Cathedral Spaces in Late Medieval Central Europe (1300-1563)
Zsuzsa Eszter Peto - The Hermits of the King, the Hermits of the People: Pauline Monastic Space in the Carpathian Basin until the Mid-Fifteenth Century
David Bryan Rockwell - Justinian's Conniving Bankers: Lobbying and the Imperial Bureaucracy in Sixth-Century Byzantium
2023
Csete Katona - Rus' Warriorhood: Warfare, Society and Culture in the Viking Age East (ca. 750-1050)
Igor Razum - The Changing Face of Reform: Roman Ideals and Central European Reflections following the Fourth Lateran Council
Karen Lynn Stark - The garden watered by the Virgin Mary: The Marian landscape of Medieval Hungary (1301-1347)
2022
Petar Ivanov Parvanov - Deviant burial practices in Medieval South-Eastern Europe
Nirvana Silnovic - Invicto Mithrae spelaeum fecit: typology and topography of Mithraic temples in the Roman province of Dalmatia
2021
Emese Annamária Muntán - Negotiating Catholic reform: global catholicism and its local agents in Northern Ottoman Rumeli (1570s-1680s)
Miso Petrovic - The development of the episcopal office in Medieval Croatia-Dalmatia: the case of Split, Trogir and Zadar (1270-1420)
Alena Ivanauna Kliuchnik - Western representations of Poland, Lithuania and Muscovy in the fifteenth - first half of the sixteenth centuries: a comparative approach using visual text analysis
Iliana Kandzha - The cult of the chaste imperial couple: Henry II and Cunigunde in the hagiographic traditions, art, and memory of the Holy Roman Empire (c. 1350-1500)
Leslie Carr-Riegel - Italian Traders in Poland 1300-1500
Josip Banic - Venetian Istria in the embrace of a nascent Dominium (c.1381-1470)
Grabiela Rojas Molina - A model to decode Venetian senate deliberations: pregadi "talk" on Albanian territories (1392-1402)
2020
Anna Adashinskaya - Ktetor: practices of ecclesiastic foundation, sponsorship, and patronage in Late Byzantium and Balkan Slavic countries
Anna Kónya - Eucharistic imagery in the late gothic wall paintings of Transylvania (c. 1440-1530)
András Vadas - Who stole the water?: the control and appropriation of water resources in Medieval Hungary
Sandro Nikolaishvili - Byzantium and the Georgian World c. 900-1210: ideology of kingship in the Byzantine periphery
Unige Bencze - On the border: monastic orders in Medieval Transylvania (between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries)
Ines Ivic - The birth of a national saint: the cult of Saint Jerome in Late Medieval Dalmatia
2019
Mária Vargha - The archaeology of christianisation of the ruralñ countryside of Medieval Hungary
Giacomo Mariani - Robert Caracciolo da Lecce's sermons as a source for the history of religiosity and culture of late fifteenth-century Italy
2018
Dragos-Gheorghe Nastasoiu - Between personal devotion and political propaganda: iconographic aspects in the representation of the "sancti reges Hungariae" in church mural painting (14th century - early 16th century)
Mircea Gratian Dulus - Rhetoric, exegesis and florilegic structure in Philagathos of Cerami: an investigation of the allegorical exegesis of Heliodorus' Aethiopika
Sona Grigoryan - Poetics of ambivalence of al-Ma'arri's "Luzumiyat" and the question of freethinking
Noel Putnik - Obtinere mentem divinam: the spiritual anthropology of Cornelius Agrippa
Laszlo Ferenci - Management of monastic landscapes: a spatial analysis of the economy of Cistercian monasteries in Medieval Hungary
János Incze - Our lord the king looks for money in every corner: Sigismund of Luxembourg's pledgings in Hungary
Anna Katalin Aklan - Wandering lotuses: parallel philosophical illustrations in the late antique Greek and in Indian philosophies
2017
Christopher Michael Mielke - Every hyacinth the garden wears: the material culture of medieval queens in Hungary (1000-1395)
Dora Ivanisevic - Epitaphic culture and social history in late antique Salone (ca. 250 - 600 C.E.)
Dóra Mérai - Memory from the past, display for the future: early modern funeral monuments from the Transylvanian Principality
Áron Orbán - Born for Phoebus: solar-astral symbolism and poetical self-representation in Conrad Celtis and his humanist circles
Andor Kelenhegyi - The beast between us: the construction of identity and alterity through animal symbolism in late antique Jewish and Christian tradition
Irina Aleksandrovna Savinetskaya - The politics and poetics of Morbus Gallicus in the German lands (1495 - 1520)
Márta Katalin Kondor - The ginger fox's two crowns: central administration and government in Sigismund of Luxembourg's realms 1410-1419
Eszter Konrád - The representation of the Saints of the mendicant orders in late medieval Hungary
Roman Olegovich Shliakhtin - Froms Huns into Persians: the projected identity of the Turks in the Byzantine rhetoric of the eleventh and twelfth centuries
2016
Ágnes Drosztmér - Images of distance and closeness: the Ottomans in sixteenth-century Hungarian vernacular poetry
Andrea Bianka Znorovszky - Between Mary and Christ: depicting cross-dressed Saints in the Middle Ages (c. 1200-1600)
Tamás Kiss - Cyprus in Venetian and Ottoman Political Imagination, c. 1489-1582
2015
Kyra Lyublyanovics - The socio-economic integration of Cumans in medieval Hungary: an archaeozoological approach
Teodora Artimon - The proto-myth of Stephen the Great of Moldavia
Peter Levente Szocs - Private monasteries of medieval Hungary (eleventh to fourteenth centuries: a case study of the Akos Kindred and its monasteries
Svetlana Rumenova Tsonkova - Charms, amulets, and crisis rites: verbal magic in daily life in medieval and early modern Bulgaria
Marijana Vukovic - Martyr memories: the afterlife of the Martyrdom of Irenaeus of Sirnium between East and West in medieval hagiographical collections (eight - eleventh centuries)
2014
Divna Valerieva Manolova - Discourses of science and philosophy in the letters of Nikephoros Gregoras
Cristian-Nicolae Daniel - Coping with the powerful other: a comparative approach to Greek-Slavonic communities of rite in late medieval Transylvania and the Banat
James Kingsly Plumtree - How the corpse of a most mighty king. . .: the use of the death and burial of the English Monarch (From Edward to Henry I)
Ágnes Flóra - The matter of honour: the leading urban elite in sixteenth century Cluj and Sibiu
Krisztina Arany - Florentine families in Hungary in the first half of the fifteenth century
Csaba Nemeth - Contemplation and the cognition of God: Victorine theological anthropology and its decline
Wojciech Kozlowski - The thirteenth-century international system and the origins of the Angevin-Piast dynastic alliance
2013
Robert Kurelic - Eagle and lion: integration, immigration, and conflict on the Istrian frontier in the sixteenth century
Magdolna Szilágyi - Arpad period communication networks: road systems in Western Transdanubia
Edit Belenyesyne Sarosi - Landscape and settlement in the Kecskemet region, 1300-1700
Julia Jedamski - Itinerant rulership in Byzantium: a topographical analysis of the Laskarid realm (1204-1261)
Luka Spoljaric - Nicholas of Modrus, "The Glory of Illyria": humanist patriotism and self-fashioning in Renaissance Rome
2012
Lovro Kuntevic - The myth of Ragusa: discourses on civic identity in an Adriatic city-state (1350-1600)
Florin Leonte - Rhetoric in purple: the renewal of imperial ideology in the texts of emperor Manuel II Palaiologos
Zsófia Buda - Sacrifice and redemption in the Hamburg Miscellany: the illustrations of a fifteenth-century Ashkenazi manuscript
Tamas Palosfalvi - The noble in the county of Körös (Križevci) 1400-1526
2011
Elena Dana Prioteasa - Medieval wall paintings in Transylvanian Orthodox churches and their donors
Andrea Kiss - Floods and long-term water-level changed in medieval Hungary
Rozana Vojvoda - Dalmatian illuminated manuscripts written in Beneventan script and Benedictine scriptoria in Zadar and Trogir
Catherine Keene - Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots: her life and memory
Nadejda Miladinova - Panoplia Dogmatike: a study on the antiheretical anthology of Euthymios Zygadenos in the post-Byzantine period
Petra Mutlova - Radicals and heretics: the Dresden school in Prague
Fabrizio Conti - Preachers and confessors against "superstitions": the Rosarium Sermonum by Bernardino Busti and its Milanese context (late fifteenth century)
2010
Orsolya Rethelyi - Mary of Hungary in Court Context (1521-1531)
Stanislava Kuzmova - Preaching Saint Stanislaus: medieval sermons on Saint Stanislaus of Cracow and their role in the construction of his image and cult
András Németh - Imperial systematization of the past: emperor Constantine VII and his historical excerpts
Iulia Capros - Students from Kosice at foreign universities before and during the Reformation period in the town
Peter Bokody - Pictorial and iconographic reflexivity: images-within-images in Italian painting (1278-1348)
Eszter Spät - Late antique motifs in Yezidi oral tradition
2009
Katerina Hornickova - In heaven and on earth: church treasure in late Medieval Bohemia
Jurgita Kunsmanaite - Provision for widowhood in the legal sources of sixteenth-century Lithuania
Ana Maria Gruia - Religious representations on stove tiles from the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary
2008
Ildikó Csepregi - The compositional history of Greek Christian incubation miracle collections: Saint Thecla, Saint Cosmas and Damian, Saint Cyrus and John, Saint Artemios
Dóra Sallay - Early Sienese paintings in Hungarian collections: 1420-1520
Reka Erzebet Forrai - The interpreter of the popes: the translation project of Anastasius Bibliothecarius
Yuriy Zazulyak - Enmity dispute and noble community in the late medieval kingdom of Polan: evidence of the Rus' palatinate, 15th-beginning of 16th centuries
Emese Sarkadi Nagy - Studies on late medieval altarpieces of Transylvania
Etleva Lala - Regnum Albaniae, the Papal curia, and the Western visions of a borderline nobility
2007
Dóra Bobory - Boldizsar Batthyany (c. 1542-1590): Erudition, natural sciences, patronage and friendship in the life of a sixteenth-century Hungarian nobleman