PhD Students

Enrollment Year 2009/10

  • Csikós, Veronika | Hungary
    Provisional doctoral thesis title: Image Building Strategies of the Dynasties in Central Europe after the Year 1300
    Provisional supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  • Dobcheva, Ivana | Bulgaria
    Provisional doctoral thesis title: The Commentary Tradition on Ovid's Metamorphoses. Content, Form and Development During the Aetas Ovidiana (Eleventh to Fourteenth Centuries)
    Provisional supervisor: Anna Somfai
  • Ferenczi, László | Hungary
    Provisional doctoral thesis title: Landscapes of Power. A Spatial Analysis of the Economic and Social Background of Cistercian Expansion
    Provisional supervisor: József Laszlovszky
  • Kozlowski, Wojciech | Poland
    Provisional doctoral thesis title: Hungarian Angevins and the Polish Kingdom 1290–1399
    Provisional supervisor: Balázs Nagy
  • Putnik, Noel | Serbia
    Provisional doctoral thesis title: The Patristic and Medieval Christian Heritage in the Works of Cornelius Agrippa
    Provisional supervisors: György Geréby and György Endre Szőnyi
  • Savinetskaya, Irina | Russia
    Provisional doctoral thesis title: The Representations of France in Central Europe in the Fifteenth and First Half of the Sixteenth Centuries
    Provisional supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz 
  • Shlyakhtin, Roman  | Russian Federation
    Provisional doctoral thesis title: Scythians or Persians? The Image of the Seljuk Turks of Asia Minor in the Byzantine Historiographical Narratives of the Twelfth Century
    Provisional supervisor: Niels Gaul

Enrollment Year 2008/9

  • Kliuchnik, Alena | Belarus
    Doctoral thesis title: From Europe to “European Asia”: Western Representations of Poland, Lithuania and Muscovy in the Fifteenth to Sixteenth Centuries. A Comparative Approach.
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  • Lyublyanovics, Kyra | Hungary
    Doctoral thesis title: Animal Husbandry and Cuman Economic Integration in Medieval Hungary. An Archaeozoological Approach.
    Supervisor: Alice M. Choyke
  • Magyar, Zsolt | Hungary
    Doctoral thesis title: Representing the Self: A Comparison of Late Antique Mausolea in Pannonia and Dalmatia
    Supervisors: Alice M. Choyke and József Laszlovszky
  • Manolova, Divna | Bulgaria
    Doctoral thesis title: Philosophical Argumentation and Dialogicity in the Hesychast Debate in Mid Fourteenth-Century Byzantium
    Supervisor: Niels Gaul
  • Sabău, Antoaneta | Romania
    Developing Latin Theological Language at the Court of Charles the Bald: Peri kataskeuēs anthrōpou of Gregory of Nyssa in the Translation of Johannes Scottus Eriugena
    Supervisor: Niels Gaul
  • Špoljarić, Luka | Croatia
    Doctoral thesis title: Nicholas of Modrus (1427–1480): defensor ecclesiae, decus Illyriae
    Supervisor: Niels Gaul
  • Vuković, Marijana | Serbia
    Doctoral thesis title: Remembering the Saint? Irenaeus of Sirmium in Latin, Greek, and Old Church Slavonic Hagiography (8th to 13h centuries)
    Supervisor: Marianne Sághy
  • Wheatley-Irving, Linda | United States
    Doctoral thesis title: Building the Monastic Life: Mar Abhai and Pesqin Monasteries on the Euphrates
    Supervisors: József Laszlovszky and István Perczel

Enrollment Year 2007/8

  • Drosztmér, Ágnes | Hungary
    Doctoral thesis title: Images of Distance and Closeness: The Ottomans in Sixteenth-Century Hungarian Vernacular Poetry
    Supervisors: Marcell Sebők and György Endre Szőnyi
  • Duluş, Mircea | Romania
    Doctoral thesis title: Philagathos of Cerami and Nilus Doxapatres: Byzantine Culture, Monastic Renewal, and Politics at the Court of King Roger II (1130–1154) and William I (1154–1166)
    Supervisor: Niels Gaul
  • Karačić, Darko | Bosnia
    Doctoral thesis title: The Franciscan Impact on Medieval Dalmatian and Bosnian Urban Centers
    Supervisor: József Laszlovszky
  • Mérai, Dóra | Hungary
    Doctoral thesis title: Tradition and Transformation in Transylvanian Stone Sepulchers in the Face of the Reformation
    Supervisor: József Laszlovszky
  • Tsonkova, Svetlana | Bulgaria
    Doctoral thesis title: Prayers, Incantations, Amulets: Practical Magic in Bulgarian Popular Religion (Tenth–Fourteenth Centuries)
    Supervisors: Gerhard Jaritz and Gábor Klaniczay

Enrollment Year 2006/7

  • Bokody, Péter | Hungary
    Doctoral thesis title: Pictorial and Iconographic Reflexivity: Images-within-Images in Italian Painting (1278–1348)
    Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay
  • Hašimbegović, Elma | Bosnia
    Doctoral thesis title: Manuscripts of the Bosnian Church
    Supervisors: József Laszlovszky and Neven Budak
  • Jedamski, Julia | Germany
    Doctoral thesis title: Decentralization in Byzantium: A topographical analysis of the Laskarid Realm (1204-1261)
    Supervisors: József Laszlovszky and Niels Gaul
  • Keene, Katie | United States
    Doctoral thesis title: Margaret of Scotland: Queen and Saint
    Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay
  • Leonte, Florin | Romania
    Doctoral thesis title: Advice and Praise for the Ruler: Politics, Ideology, and Rhetoric in Manuel II Palaiologos' Writings
    Supervisor: Niels Gaul
  • McEntee, Brian  | United States
    Doctoral thesis title: Urban Development of the Queen's Town of Óbuda
    Supervisor: Katalin Szende
  • Novalija, Alen | Slovenia
    Doctoral thesis title: The Balkan Simmering Pot – Serbian Sanctity After the Nemanjici and Before the Renewal of the Patriarchate of Pec in 1557
    Supervisor: Niels Gaul

Enrollment Year 2005/6

  • Arany, Krisztina | Hungary
    Doctoral thesis title: Florentine Merchant Families in Hungary During the Reign of King Sigismund of Luxemburg (1387-1437)
    Supervisor: Balázs Nagy
  • Buda, Zsófia | Hungary
    Doctoral thesis title: The Hamburg Miscellany: A Fifteenth Century Visual "Memorbuch"
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  • Conti, Fabrizio | Italy
    Doctoral thesis title: Preachers and Confessors Against “Superstitions” Between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: The Rosarium Sermonum of Bernardino Busti (Northern Italy, Late Fifteenth Century)
    Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay
  • Daniel, Cristian-Nicolae | Romania
    Provisional doctoral thesis title: Coping with the Powerful Other: Orthodox Ecclesiastical Geography of Late Medieval Transylvania
    Supervisor: Niels Gaul
  • Gabrichidze, Natia | Georgia
    Provisional doctoral thesis title: The Homilies of St. Germanos I Patriarch of Constantinople in the Old Georgian Translated Sources
    Supervisor: István Perczel
  • Kurelić Robert | Croatia
    Provisional doctoral thesis title: Society on the Border: Immigration, Integration and Conflict in the Late Medieval County of Pazin
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  • Szilágyi, Magdolna | Hungary
    Provisional doctoral thesis title: Medieval Roads in Transdanubia
    Supervisors: József Laszlovszky and Katalin Szende

Enrollment Year 2004/5

  • Flóra, Ágnes | Romania
    Doctoral thesis title: "The Matter of the Honorable". The Urban Political Elite in Transylvania in the 16th Century
    Supervisor: Katalin Szende
  • Kunčević, Lovro | Croatia
    Doctoral thesis title: Discourses on Collective Identity in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Ragusa (Dubrovnik)
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  • Miladinova, Nadejda | Bulgaria
    Doctoral thesis title: Transmission History of Euthymios Zigadenos’ Panoplia Dogmatike with Editio Princeps of Scholia to the Fragments of Dionysios the Areopagite and Gregory the Theologian
    Supervisor: István Perczel
  • Németh, András | Hungary
    Doctoral thesis title: Imperial Systematisation of the Past: Emperor Constantine VII and His Historical Excerpts
    Supervisor: Niels Gaul
  • Sebő, Judit | Hungary
    Doctoral thesis title: The Attentive Gaze. Town and Landscape in the Graphic Arts of the Sixteenth Century
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz.
  • Vedriš, Trpimir | Croatia
    Doctoral thesis title: The Cult of the Urban Patron Saints in Medieval Episcopal Cities of Dalmatia: The Cases of Iadera and Spalato
    Supervisor: Marianne Sághy

Enrollment Year 2003/4

  • Kuzmova, Stanislava | Slovakia
    Doctoral thesis title: Preaching Saint Stanislaus: Medieval Sermons on Saint Stanislaus and Their Role in the Construction of His Image and Cult
    Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay
  • Movrin, David | Slovenia
    Doctoral thesis title: Vinum vetus in utres novos: Life of Antony within the Late Antique Biographic Tradition
    Supervisors: Volker Menze and Marianne Sághy
  • Szőcs, Péter Levente | Romania
    Doctoral thesis title: Kindred Monasteries of Medieval Hungary
    Supervisor: Béla Zsolt Szakács

Enrollment Year 2002/3

  • Mutlova, Petra | Czech Republic
    Doctoral thesis title: Radicals and Heretics: The Dresden School in Prague
    Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay
  • Németh, Csaba | Hungary
    Provisional doctoral thesis title: The Theological Anthropology of the Victorine School
    Supervisor: György Geréby
  • Prioteasa, Elena-Dana | Romania
    Provisional doctoral thesis title: Western Influences on the Iconography of Medieval Orthodox Churches in Transylvania
    Supervisor: Béla Zsolt Szakács
  • Soós, Zoltán | Romania
    Doctoral thesis title: The Mendicant Orders in Medieval Transylvania, 13th-16th Centuries Supervisor: József Laszlovszky
  • Péri-Nagy, Zsuzsanna | Romania
    Doctoral thesis title: Clerical Discourse Moulded by the Lay Audience: Late Medieval Sermons Written for Pentecost
    Supervisors: Gábor Klaniczay (temporarily withdrawn)

Enrollment Year 2001/2

  • Belényesyné Sárosi, Edit  | Hungary
    Doctoral thesis title: Landscape and Settlements Around Kecskemét (Danube-Tisza Interfluve Region, Hungary) Between the 14th-17th Centuries
    Supervisor: Katalin Szende
  • Marinković, Ana | Croatia
    Doctoral thesis title: Creation and Use of a Local Episcopal Civic Cult: St. John of Trogir
    Supervisors: Gábor Klaniczay and Neven Budak
  • Vojvoda, Rozana | Croatia
    Doctoral thesis title: Dalmatian Illuminated Manuscripts Written in Beneventan Script
    Supervisor: Béla Zsolt Szakács

Enrollment Year 2000/1

  • Sileikyte, Ruta | Lithuania
    Doctoral thesis title: King Alfred's Boethius: The Reception of Christian Neoplatonic Thought in the Old English Philosophical Translation
    Supervisor: György Geréby (temporarily withdrawn)

Enrollment Year 1999/2000

  • Klatý, Marek | Slovakia
    Doctoral thesis title: Literacy and Orality of Daily Life in an East Slavic Mediaeval Urban Center: Toward Historical Anthropology of the Birch-bark Letters of Novgorod
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  • Pálosfalvi, Tamás | Hungary
    Doctoral thesis title: A History of Slavonia 1440-1526. The King, the Ban, and the Nobility
    Supervisors: Gábor Klaniczay and Neven Budak

Enrollment Year 1998/9

  • Kiss, Andrea | Hungary
    Doctoral thesis title: Environmental History of the Large Lakes in Late Medieval Hungary: Lake Balaton, Fertő, and Velence
    Supervisor: József Laszlovszky

Enrollment Year 1997/8

  • Hristovska, Katerina | Macedonia
    Doctoral thesis title: Coin Finds from the Republic of Macedonia from 12th to 14th centuries: Currencies and Money in the South-Eastern Balkans
    Supervisor: József Laszlovszky