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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

historical anthropology of medieval and early modern European popular religion (sainthood, miracle beliefs, visions, healing, magic, witchcraft)

Archaeology of the Middle Ages;
medieval monastic culture

Medieval economic history

I studied history, Latin philology, French literature and linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, where I started to teach in 1985 with a grant from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. I was working on late medieval French projects concerning the recovery of the Holy Land. Following a year at Oxford University, I received a Ph.D. scholarship at Princeton. The four years spent there saw my conversion to Late Antiquity (1989-93). I came home with great enthusiasm to teach at the newly established Medieval Studies Department at CEU, and I continued teaching at ELTE too. 
 

My research interest includes ancient, late antique and medieval science and philosophy, medieval manuscript studies and cognitive science. My current research project explores visual thinking and diagrammatic reasoning. After having received my PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1998, I have held research positions for eight years at the University of Cambridge, the Warburg Institute (University of London), and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), and most recently for a year at the Collegium Budapest. I have taught courses in medieval science, philosophy, intellectual history, manuscript studies, palaeography and cognitive science in Cambridge, London, and Budapest. My current courses at CEU include medieval science and codicology.

Urban history, literacy, material culture

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.

After graduating Classical Philology in Sofia University (BA) and defending her Master thesis on Byzantine historiography at CEU Ivana Dobcheva is currently a PhD student. Her research is devoted to the transmission and reception of the Aratea in the Latin West during the Early Middle Ages. The topic combines her primary interest in manuscript studies, classical literature, and transmission of ideas in the Middle Ages.

Mircea Duluş graduated from the Faculty of History and Philosophy Babeş-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) and from the Faculty of Letters, Department of Classical Philology (Latin and Ancient Greek). In 2006 he was accepted for the MA programm in Medieval Studies at Central European University, Budapest, followed with the admission for the PhD programm in 2007. From 2009 he is a fellow at the New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Studies, Bucharest.

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.

Florin has a B.A. in Classics (University of Iasi, Romania) and an M.A. in Medieval Studies (CEU, Budapest). As a PhD student, he is studying late Byzantine rhetoric with a particular focus on the orations of the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos.

Born in 1975, Zsolt Magyar was educated at the University of Pécs, the Theological College of Pécs and the University of Sheffield. His research interest is the funerary commemoration of the Late Roman Empire, especially mausolea. He taught Classical Archaeology and History of Religion in the Univesity of Debrecen and published papers, among others, about different influences in Late Roman Sopianae and the relation of the imperial cult to Christianity. An Academic Visitor at the Univesity of Oxford in 2010. Now he is working on his PhD thesis about the mausolea of Pannonia and Dalmatia in Late Antiquity.

BA - History & Anthropology, University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL)
MA - History, University of Maryland (College Park, MD)
MA - Medieval Archaeology, University of Reading (Reading, Berkshire, UK)

Current project is on the material culture of medieval Hungarian queens of the Árpádian & Angevin dynasties (ca. 1000-1450). The material culture is divided into two sources: artifacts and space. Artifacts will include objects, both personal and political, that the queens would have owned or interacted with. These include seals, regalia, coins, gifts, and other sundry items. Spaces to be analyzed will include tombs and burial location, monasteries, and palaces, where they are extant. The purpose of this project is to understand the agency of Hungarian queens through the biographies of objects, and to understand the scope of their power through sources utilizing more than the written records.

Noel holds a BA in classical philology from Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia, and an MA in medieval studies from CEU, Budapest. In his MA thesis (2007) he dealt with the work of the German humanist Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and his attempted synthesis of various spiritual and hermetic doctrines. The subject of his current PhD research is Agrippa’s reception and appropriation of biblical and patristic literature in the highly heterodox context of late medieval and Renaissance syncretism.

Irina received a diploma in history teaching at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia (2008) and an MA in medieval studies at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (2009). In her MA thesis she dealt with the French contribution to the later crusades and made an attempt to establish a certain crusaders' group consciousness which motivated the knights to take part in the crusading campaigns in the late fourteenth - beginning of the fifteenth century. Irina is currently a doctoral candidate and works on the image of France in the German lands after the rediscovery of Tacitus' Germania.

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.