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Socio-cultural aspects of past human-animal interactions.
Material Culture Studies
Environmentt and bio-archaeology (archaeozoology)
MAD (Medieval Animal Data-networks) : an international project dedicated to the idea of integrating data from textual, visual and archaeozoological sources on animals in medieval life.

Byzantine history, c.600–1500;
Byzantine rhetoric;
Byzantine manuscript studies & Greek palaeography

History of everyday life in the Middle Ages;
history of visual culture;
gender history

Early modern Ottoman history; history of the early modern Mediterranean

Late antiquity

István Perczel earned his C.Sc. (=Ph.D.) degree in 1995 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in Religious Studies. He has no other academic degree. He studied Greek with Prof. Judit Horváth in Budapest and, later, Syriac with Abouna Mushe Cicek in Jerusalem. He taught at CEU from 1994 but interrupted his teaching between 2004 and 2010, when he was, first conducting field work in India, collecting, digitising, cataloguing and assessing the manuscripts of the St Thomas Christians and, then, was doing research in Jerusalem, in the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University.

His research interests are: Patristics, Neoplatonist philosophy, Byzantine and Eastern Christian studies, Syriac manuscripts, history of Christianity in India.

cultural historian of Renaissance and Reformation;
(sometimes) cultural analyst and developer of cultural policies

GY. E. SZÖNYI is professor of English (Szeged) and intellectual history (CEU, Budapest). His interests include the Renaissance, the Western Esoteric traditions, and cultural theory and symbolization. – Recent monographs: Pictura & Scriptura. 20th-Century Theories of Cultural Representations (in Hungarian, Szeged, 2004); John Dee's Occultism (Albany: SUNY Press, 2004). – He has edited among others: European Iconography East & West (Leiden, 1996); The Iconography of Power (with Rowland Wymer, Szeged, 2000); "The Voices of the English Renaissance," Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 11.1 (2005); The Iconology of Gender (with Attila Kiss, Szeged, 2008).

Judit Majorossy graduated from History and English language and literature at Janus Pannonius University in Pécs (Fünfkirchen) before studying at the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU (MA, PhD). She defended her PhD dissertation in 2006. Afterwards, she obtained several post-doctoral scholarships in Hungary (Magyary Zoltán Fellowship, OTKA) and was affiliated to the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, but she also had extensive research periods abroad, in Edinburgh at the Advanced Studies Institute with nominated fellowship and in Münster (Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte) with the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. As a returning Humboldt-fellow she continues her postdoctoral researcher on the project " Urban Space and Urban Society: Comparative Investigation of the Usage of Space, Social Topography and Social Networks in Western Hungary (1400–1550)" as an alumna at the Department of Medieval Studies.

Vedran Bileta graduated History at the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula in 2008. He finished MA at the Department of Medieval Studies at the Central European University of Budapest in 2010. Vedran is a student of late antiquity specializing in western Mediterranean area (with particular focus on Italy), and his research interests are socio-political and economical history of the Late Roman Empire with a focus on the relationship between the emperor, military and civil elites.

2009-2011: MA at Central European University, Department of Medieval Studies, Master’s thesis on “Anti-Muslim polemics of Ibn Taymiyya: The corruption of the Scriptures
2006-2008: MA at Yerevan State University, Department of Oriental Studies, Master's thesis on “The role of Sayyid Qutb’s writings in the development of the modern trends of Sunni fundamentalism
2004-2005: Institute of Arabic Language for Non-Arabic Speakers,Arab Republic of Syria, Dama
2001-2006: Bachelor’s degree in Oriental Studies in the Field of Arabic Studies, Yerevan State University, Faculty of Oriental Studies
Research Interests:
Muslim-Christian Polemics
Abbasid Freethinking

Dora is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU. She holds a BA degree in Archaeology, History, and Latin Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, and an MA degree in Medieval Studies from CEU, Budapest. Dora is a student of late antiquity specializing in eastern Mediterranean, and her research interests are socio-political and legal history of the later Roman Empire with a focus on the relationship between the emperor, and secular and religious elites.

Research Interests:
Early Modern Ottoman historiography
Medieval and Early Modern history of the Mediterranean
Early Modern written and visual representations of the Levant
Historical Shakespeare

Degrees:
Master of Philosophy in English and Drama (University of London)
Master of Arts in English Literature and History (ELTE, Budapest)
Master of Arts in Turkish and Ottoman Studies (ELTE, Budapest)

Publication:
'Turkish Cypriot Epics about Outlaws, Bandits and Murderers' in Journal of Cyprus Studies vol. 10 (2004)

Márta Kondor studied at the University of Pécs (MA in History and in Latin) and at the Central European University (MA in Medieval Studies). She taught history at secondary school, worked as visiting lecturer and research assistant at the University of Pécs; lately she was employed as a junior scientist at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Márta’s current research is focused on King and Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg. Her papers were published in English, German and Hungarian.

Divna Manolova graduated the Philosophy Department at Sofia University and the Medieval Studies Department at CEU, Budapest. Divna is currently a PhD candidate in the Medieval Studies Department, CEU and works on philosophy and letter-writing in fourteenth-century Byzantium with primary focus on the correspondence of Nikephoros Gregoras.

I received a BA in Classical Languages and Literature from the “Babeş-Bolyai” University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2008) and a BA in Theology from the “1 Decembrie 1918” University (Alba-Iulia, Romania, 2009). In 2011 Central European University, Budapest, awarded me an MA in Comparative History – Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies with the specialization in Late Antique, Byzantine and Ottoman Studies, with a thesis on the unedited letters of the fourteenth-century Byzantine pepaideumenos, Maximos Neamonites: “A Late Byzantine Swan Song: Maximos Neamonites and His Letters.” I am currently enrolled with the Department of Medieval Studies at the Central European University, reading for a PhD in Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies, on the hagiographical œuvre of Philotheos Kokkinos (ca.1300–ca.1377/8), patriarch of Constantinople (1353–1354/5; 8 Oct. 1364–1376), distinguished theologian and arguably the most gifted Palaiologan hagiographer.

MA Medieval Studies (CEU); MA Medieval Studies (Bris); BA English Language and Literature (Oxon).

Luka Špoljarić graduated History and Latin Language at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. He earned his master's degree in Medieval Studies at CEU, where he is currently a PhD Candidate (ABD). Luka's research interests pertain to Renaissance humanism, rhetoric, and book culture and are mostly focused on Dalmatia. His dissertation presents a study of the life and works of a Dalmatian humanist, Nicholas bishop of Modruš (Nicolaus Modrussiensis, 1427-1480; also known as Nikola Modruški, Niccolò Modrussiense). The first part will offer a narrative of Nicholas' life, shedding new light on Nicholas’ education and career, the formation of his library, and networking strategies. The second will focus on the work he placed high hopes in - On the Wars of the Goths (De bellis Gothorum). The editions of the On the Wars of the Goths, Nicholas’ correspondence, and prefaces to all his works will be appended to it, along with a catalogue of manuscripts that formed his library. In the Fall Term of 2010-2011 Luka was a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard University History Department, while in 2011-2012 he will be a Short Term Frances A. Yates Fellow at the Warburg Institute.

Marijana Vukovic obtained university degree in Classics from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy. She additionally obtained MA degree from the Central European University in Budapest, working on reception of classical authors in the 6th-century library of Vivarium in Southern Italy. She enrolled the doctoral program at the same university in 2008. Her dissertation deals with a martyrdom narrative of an early Christian bishop and martyr, Irenaeus of Sirmium. It tackles the issues of the text within the narrative context and genre, as well as the after-life of the text through Latin, Greek and Old Church Slavonic manuscripts. This work merges Marijana's interests in early Christianity, hagiography and manuscript studies.