MA Students
One-Year MA (2020/21)
Matej Cermak | Czech Republic Topic at CEU: Hostageship in Late Medieval Bohemia Supervisors: Balázs Nagy, Gerhard Jaritz |
Liam Downs-Tepper | USA Topic at CEU: Justifications for Fortifications: Explaining Styles and Placements of Transylvanian Fortified Churches Supervisors: József Laszlovszky, Béla Zsolt Szakács |
Misel Gara | Hungary Topc at CEU: Social Aspects of the Early Christian Love-Feasts Supervisors: György Geréby, István Perczel |
Shota Matitashvili | Georgia Topic at CEU: The Canonical Status of the Georgian Church from the Conversion to the Establishment of Catholicocate (c. 326-473) Supervisor: István Perczel |
Theres Pattery | India Topic at CEU: Mind, Body and Soul: A Study of Healing Practices and Medicine among the St. Thomas Christians of Kerala, 1500-1800 CE Supervisors: István Perczel, Gábor Klaniczay |
Zvonimir Plavec | Croatia Topic at CEU: Pannonian Slavs in the Context of the Frankish System of Ethnicities Supervisor: Daniel Ziemann |
Fabian Riesinger | Germany Topic at CEU: Making an Island: The Transformation(s) of Rhodes under Early Ottoman Rule (1522–1560) Supervisors: Günhan Börekci, Béla Zsolt Szakács |
Domagoj Smojver | Croatia Topic at CEU: Tatar Invasion of Pannonia and Dalmatia: Were They Really as Savage and Cruel as the Sources Say? Supervisors: Balázs Nagy, József Laszlovszky |
Olha Stasiuk | Ukraine Topic at CEU: The Registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary as a Source for Cases of Coercion in Central Europe (1431-1523) Supervisors: Gerhard Jaritz |
Jack Wilson | Canada Topic at CEU: The Role of Nogai in Eastern Europe and the Late Thirteenth-Century Golden Horde: A Reassessment Supervisors: Balázs Nagy, József Laszlovszky |
Two-Year MA
Year Two (2019/20-2020/21)
Supervisors: Cristian-Nicolae Gaspar, György Geréby Aleksandar holds BA and MA degrees from the University of Belgrade, from 2016 and 2018 respectively. For his BA degree, he translated parts of Macrobius’s Saturnalia and Ovidius’s Fasti concerning ancient Roman religion in the classical period and Late Antiquity. At the MA level his thesis, Dictys Cretensis and the Trojan War in John Malalas’s Chronographia, focused mainly on John Malalas and the reception of the classical myth of the Trojan War in Early Byzantine historiography. Aleksandar studied Modern Greek in Athens and Thessaloniki, and actively participated in regional conferences in Ljubljana (Slovenia), Skopje (North Macedonia) and Zadar (Croatia). His main interest is Greek spiritual terminology during Late Antiquity/Early Byzantium, influence of the Scripture on Byzantine Literature and Early Medieval Greek language in general. |
Supervisors: Alice M. Choyke, Katalin Szende Ágnes received her bachelor’s degree in Medieval and Classical Archaeology at Eötvös Loránd University Budapest. During her MA studies at ELTE, she specialized in archaeozoology. Before commencing her studies at CEU, she worked on archaeological projects in France, Germany, Slovakia and Hungary. In addition to archaeozoology, her current academic interests include medieval bone, antler and ivory working, medieval topography and urbanization, connection between workshops, and medieval handcrafts in general. She also likes flowers. |
![]() Topic at CEU: Against Millennialism: 16th-Century Ottoman Cosmography and Gelibolulu Mustafa Ali’s The Mirror of the Worlds (Mir’atü’l-Avalim) Supervisors: Günhan Börekci, Marcell Sebők (second reader) |
Supervisor: Marcell Sebők Sebastian received his MA degree in Archival Studies and Auxiliary Sciences of History from Comenius University Bratislava. He is also a proud alumnus of Accademia Vivarium Novum in Italy. His research interests lie in medieval and early modern Central Europe, focusing on intellectual and cultural history, reception of classical culture, and relations with Western humanism. He is also interested in archival science and linguistics in general. |
Giorgi Markozashvili | Georgia Supervisor: György Geréby |
Glenn Mills | UK Supervisors: György Geréby, Volker Menze Glenn began his academic studies at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he embarked on an MA (Hons) in English Literature and Medieval History, graduating in 2019. His literary studies encompassed medieval romance, Older Scots and early Tudor writing, while his historical interests lie in late antique religious and legal history. He was the editor of the student-led St Andrews Historical Journal and has completed research assistantships with the Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research and the Medieval and Renaissance Research Group. Beyond this, he has been involved in conservation and heritage projects, fundraising and educational quality review. |
Eszter Sajni | Hungary Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay |
![]() Topic at CEU: 'For Truly my Treasure is Thou': Idioms of Wealth and Poverty in Middle English Devotional Literature Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay |
Year One (2020/21-2021/22)
Daria Ageeva | Russian Federation Topic at CEU: Institutions and Administrative Practices of the Venetian Republic in the Modification of Natural Landscape of Terraferma Supervisors: Gerhard Jaritz, Alice Choyke |
Ana Adazabal | Argentina, France Topic at CEU: Medieval Literature and the Shaping of Modern Witchcraft Supervisors: Gábor Klaniczay, Zsuzsanna Reed |
Katarina Balcirakova | Slovakia Topic at CEU: Development of Christian Rites from Late Antiquity to Middle Ages Supervisors: György Geréby, Gábor Klaniczay |
Saranya Chandran | India Topic at CEU: The Medieval and Early Modern Development of Malayalam Scripts Supervisors: István Perczel |
Agatha Georgescu | Romania Topic at CEU: Seduction and Consent in Later Medieval Thought and Legal Practice Supervisors: Gábor Klaniczay, Gerhard Jaritz |
Marie-Eve Lafontaine | Canada, USA Topic at CEU: Connoisseurship: Dr. Fritz Koreny and the Question of Bosch Attribution Supervisor: Béla Zsolt Szakács |
Zeynep Olgun | Turkey Topic at CEU: The Byzantine Sea: Transformation of Harbors from Late Antiquity to the Medieval Mediterranean Supervisor: Baukje van den Berg |
Osman Ozdemir | Turkey Topic at CEU: The Idea of Public and Religious Space and The Sassanid Occupation of Jerusalem in 614 CE Supervisor: Günhan Börekci |
Zoe Schwartz | USA Topic at CEU: Inside and Outside City Walls: Medieval Jewish Communities and Rulership in German Cities Supervisors: Carsten Wilke, Gerhard Jaritz |
Bogdan Sorinca | Romania Topic at CEU: Shifting Materiality under Habsburg Expansion Supervisors: Marcell Sebők, Gerhard Jaritz |
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