Alumni

Luka Špoljarić Wins Post-doctoral Fellowship at Villa I Tatti Florence

January 20, 2015

Luka Špoljarić (MA ’08, PhD ’13) has been awarded a prestigious one-year postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University’s Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti in Florence for the academic year from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016.

Nadia Miladinova's book on The Panoplia Dogmatike by Euthymios Zygadenos has been published at Brill

Nadia Miladinova (MA ’04, PhD ’11)
The Panoplia Dogmatike by Eythymios Zygadenos
A study on the first edition published in Greek in 1710

Public lecture by dr habil Ryszard Grzesik (MA' 94) at ELTE on November 4, 2014

November 4, 2014

The lecture dealt with one of the most controversial medieval chronicle, which is known as the Hungarian-Polish Chronicle. R.G. summarized his opinion on the Chronicle (text, versions, sources - with main focus on the Legenda Hartviciana), the date, the place and the milieu of its origin. He also showed the Hungarian and the Polish motifs, which reflected the discussion absorbed the political elites in both countries.

New book: Kép és kereszténység [Image and Christianity]

Edited by Peter Bokody (MA'06, PhD'10 ), published by Benedictine Abbey, Pannonhalma, 2014.

Icons and Relics. Venerations of Images between East and West

July 2, 2014

Periodic Exhibition at the Archabbey, Pannonhalma,Curator of the Exhibition: Peter BokodyThe last station of the visit to the abbey is the temporary exhibition entitled: “Icons and relics: Veneration of Images between East and West”. This exhibition examines the use of pictures in Christian art.  The exhibition displays the procedure through which the strong cult of icons originating from orthodox Christianity formed the western concept of using pictures, and established the notion of picture in western art.