Defended dissertations

  1. Adashinskaya, Anna | Russian Federation
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Ktetor: Practices of Ecclesiastic Foundation, Sponsorship, and Patronage in Late Byzantium and Balkan Slavic Countries.
    Defended: December 2019
    Supervisors: Daniel Ziemann, Gábor Klaniczay
  2. Aklan, Anna | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Wandering Lotuses: Metaphorical similarities in Late Antique and Indian Philosophies
    Defended: September 2018
    Supervisors: István Perczel and Ferenc Ruzsa
  3. Alexandrov, Victor | Russian Federation
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Slavic Destiny of the Syntagma of Matthew Blastares: Dissemination and Use of the Code from the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Century
    Defended: May 2004
    Supervisor: Ralph Cleminson
  4. Andrić, Stanko | Croatia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Miracles of St. John Capistran
    Defended: February 1998
    Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay
  5. Arany, Krisztina | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Florentine Families in Hungary in the First Half of the Fifteenth Century
    Defended: June 2014
    Supervisor: Balázs Nagy
  6. Artimon, Teodora | Romania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Proto-Myth of Stephen the Great of Moldavia
    Defended: March 2015
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  7. Banić, Josip | Croatia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Venetian State Building in Late Medieval Istria (c. 1450 - c. 1550)
    Defended: June 2021
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  8. Baranov, A. Vladimir | Russian Federation
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Byzantine Iconoclasm (726–843): A Study in Theological Method
    Defended: May 2004
    Supervisor: György Geréby
  9. Barbiera, Irene | Italy
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Migration and Identity During the Lombard Invasions
    Defended: October 2003
    Supervisor: József Laszlovszky
  10. Bencze, Ünige | Romania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: On the Border: Monastic Landscapes of Medieval Transylvania (Between the Eleventh and Sixteenth Centuries)
    Defended: March 2020
    Supervisors: József Laszlovszky, Katalin Szende
  11. Bobory, Dóra | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Boldizsár Batthyány (1542–1590): Erudition, Natural Sciences, Patronage, and Friendship in the Life of a Sixteenth-Century Hungarian Nobleman
    Defended: June 2007
    Supervisor: Katalin Szende
  12. Bodnaruk, Mariana | Ukraine
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Imperial Elite Representation in Late Antique Roman Art
    Defended: June 2019
    Supervisors: Gerhard Jaritz and Silvia Orlandi (external supervisor)
  13. Bokody, Julia (Jedamski) | Germany
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Itinerant Rulership in Byzantium: A Topographical Analysis of the Laskarid Realm (1204-1261)
    Defended: March 2013
    Supervisors: Niels Gaul and József Laszlovszky
  14. Bokody, Péter | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Pictorial and Iconographic Reflexivity: Images-within-Images in Italian Painting (1278–1348)
    Defended: July 2010
    Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay
  15. Buda, Zsófia | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Sacrifice and Redemption in the Hamburg Miscellany. The Illustrations of a Fifteenth-century Ashkenazi Manuscript.
    Defended: June 2012
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  16. Bugár, István | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: A Cult With Images. Christian Attitudes towards Sacred Art from Constantine to Justinian
    Defended: May 2003
    Supervisor: István Perczel
  17. Caproş, Iulia | Moldova 
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Students from Košice at Foreign Universities Before and During the Reformation Period in the Town
    Defended: February 2010
    Supervisor: Katalin Szende
  18. Carr-Riegel, Leslie | United States of America
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Italian Traders in Poland 1300-1500
    Defended: June 2021
    Supervisors: Katalin Szende, Gerhard Jaritz

  19. Conti, Fabrizio | Italy
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Preachers and Confessors against “Superstitions”. The Rosarium Sermonum by Bernardino Busti and its Milanese Context. (Late Fifteenth Century)
    Defended: September 2011
    Supervisor: Gabor Klaniczay
  20. Csepregi, Ildikó | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Compositional History of Early Christian Greek Incubation Miracles
    Defended: June 2007
    Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay
  21. Daniel, Cristian-Nicolae | Romania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Coping with the powerful other: A Comparative Approach to Greek-Slavonic Communities of Rite in Late Medieval Transylvania and the Banat
    Defended: February 2014
    Supervisor: Niels Gaul
  22. Dimitrova, Draganova Margaret | Bulgaria
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Greek and Latin Loanwords and Names in Croation Glagolitic Missals
    Defended: May 1998
    Supervisors: Ralph Cleminson and Henrik Birnbaum
  23. Doležalová, Lucie | Czech Republic
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Reception and Its Varieties: Reading, Re-Writing, and Understanding Cena Cypriani in the Middle Ages
    Defended: May 2005
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  24. Drosztmér, Ágnes | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Images of Distance and Closeness: The Ottomans in Sixteenth-Century Hungarian Vernacular Poetry
    Defended: June 2016
    Supervisors: Marcell Sebők, György Endre Szőnyi
  25. Duluș, Mircea | Romania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Rhetoric, Exegesis and Florilegic Structure in Philagathos of Cerami: An Investigation of the Homilies and of the Allegorical Exegesis of Heliodorus’ Aethiopika
    Defended: February 2018
    Supervisors: Floris Bernard, Niels Gaul
  26. Ferenczi, László | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Management of Monastic Landscapes. A Spatial Analysis of the Economy of Cistercian Monasteries in Medieval Hungary.
    Defended: June 2018
    Supervisor: József Laszlovszky
  27. Flóra, Ágnes | Romania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Matter of Honour. The Leading Urban Elite in Sixteenth Century Cluj and Sibiu.
    Defended: June 2014
    Supervisor: Katalin Szende
  28. Forrai, Réka | Romania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Interpreter of the Popes: The Translation Project of Anastasius Bibliothecarius
    Defended: March 2008
    Supervisor: György Geréby
  29. Gaşpar, Cristian-Nicolae | Romania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: In Praise of Unlikely Holy Men: Elite Hagiography, Monastic Panegyric, and Cultural Translation in the Philotheos Historia of Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrrhus
    Defended: July 2006
    Supervisor: István Perczel
  30. Gecser, Ottó | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Aspects of the Cult of St. Elizabeth of Hungary with a Special Emphasis on Preaching, 1231-c.1500
    Defended: January 2007
    Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay
  31. Gigineishvili, Levan | Georgia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Platonic Theology of Ioane Petritsi
    Defended: May 2000
    Supervisor: István Perczel
  32. Gogâltan, Anca | Romania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Patronage and Artistic Production in Transylvania: The Apafis and the Church in Mălâncrav (14th – 15th centuries
    Defended: December 2002
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  33. Goina, Mariana | Moldova
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Uses of Pragmatic Literacy in the Medieval Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia (from the State Foundation to the End of the Sixteenth Century)
    Defended: September 2009
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  34. Grigoryan, Sona | Armenia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Poetics of Ambivalence of al-Ma'arri's Luzumiyyat and the Question of Freethinking
    Defended: May 2018
    Supervisor: Aziz Al-Azmeh
  35. Gruia, Ana Maria | Romania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Religious Representations on Stove Tiles from the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary
    Defended: June 2009
    Supervisor: József Laszlovszky
  36. Heidl, György | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Origen's Influence on the Young Augustine
    Defended: May 2000
    Supervisor: István Perczel
  37. Horničková, Kateřina| Czech Republic
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: In Heaven and on Earth: Church Treasure in Late Medieval Bohemia
    Defended: March 2009
    Supervisors: Gerhard Jaritz and Béla Zsolt Szakács
  38. Hunyadi, Zsolt | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Hospitallers in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary, c.1150–1387
    Defended: March 2004
    Supervisor: József Laszlovszky
  39. Incze, János | Romania
    Title of the dissertation: “Our Lord the King Looks for Money in Every Corner” Sigismund of Luxembourg’s Pledgings in Hungary
    Defended: December 2018
    Supervisors: Katalin Szende, Balázs Nagy
  40. Ivanišević, Dora | Croatia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Epitaphic Culture and Social History in Late Antique Salona (ca. 250 – 600 C.E.)
    Defended: January 2017
    Supervisor: Volker Menze
  41. Ivić, Ines | Croatia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Birth of National Saint: The Cult of Saint Jerome in Late Medieval Dalmatia
    Defended: August 2020
    Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay
  42. Jugănaru, Andra | Romania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Family Double Monasteries in the Fourth and the Fifth Centuries: An Inquiry into the Theological Roots, Social Context, and Early Evolution of an Old Practice
    Defended: June 2018
    Supervisors: Marianne Sághy, István Perczel
  43. Jurković, Ivan | Croatia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Fate of the Croatian Noble Families in the Face of Ottoman Advance
    Defended: March 2004
    Supervisor: János M. Bak
  44. Kandzha, Iliana | Russian Federation
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Cult of the Royal Couple: Henry II and Cunigunde in Hagiographic Tradition, Art, and Memory of the Holy Roman Empire (c. 1350–1500)
    Defended: September 2021
    Supervisors: Daniel Ziemann, Gerhard Jaritz
  45. Karaulashvili, Irma | Georgia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Epistula Abgari: Composition, Redactions, Dates
    Defended: June 2004
    Supervisor: István Perczel
  46. Karbić, Damir | Croatia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Šubi?i of Bribir (A Case Study of a Croatian Medieval Kindred)
    Defended: January 2000
    Supervisor: János M. Bak
  47. Katona, Csete| Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Rus’ Warriorhood. Warfare, Society and Culture in the Viking Age East (ca. 750–1050).
    Defended: February 2024
    Supervisor: József Laszlovszky
  48. Keene, Catherine | United States of America
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots: Her Life and Memory
    Defended: January 2011
    Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay
  49. Kelenhegyi, Andor | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Beast between Us. The Construction of Identity and Alterity through Animal Symbolism in Late Antique Jewish and Christian Tradition
    Defended: November 2017
    Supervisor: Wilke, Carsten
  50. Kiss, Andrea | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Floods and Long-Term Water-Level Changes in Medieval Hungary
    Defended: August 2011
    Supervisor: József Laszlovszky
  51. Kiss, Tamás | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Cyprus in Venetian and Ottoman Political Imagination, c. 1489-1582
    Defended: June 2016
    Supervisor: Tijana Krstić, György Endre Szőnyi
  52. Kliuchnik, Alena | Belarus
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Western Representations of Poland, Lithuania and Moscovia in the Fifteenth - First Half of the Sixteenth Centuries. A Comparative Approach Using Visual Text Analysis.
    Defended: June 2020
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  53. Kolbutova, Irina | Russian Federation
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Transformations of Philosophical Metaphors in Text and Image: From Plotinus to John Damascene and Christian Iconography
    Defended: February 2004
    Supervisor: István Perczel
  54. Kondor, Marta | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Ginger Fox's Two Crowns. Central Administration and Government in Sigismund of Luxembourg's Realms 1410-1419
    Defended: May 2017
    Supervisor: Katalin Szende
  55. Konrad, Eszter | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Representation of Mendicant Saints in Late Medieval Hungary
    Defended: December 2017
    Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay
  56. Kónya, Anna | Romania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Eucharistic Imagery in the Late Gothic Wall Paintings of Transylvania (c. 1440–1530).
    Defended: June 2020
    Supervisor: Béla Zsolt Szakács
  57. Kostova, Rossina | Bulgaria
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Monasticism in Bulgaria, Ninth to Tenth Centuries: Interpreting the Archaeological Evidence
    Defended: May 2002
    Supervisor: József Laszlovszky
  58. Kovács, Annamária | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Court, Fashion and Representation: The Hungarian Illuminated Chronicle Revisited
    Defended: June 2000
    Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay
  59. Kozlowski, Wojciech | Poland
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Thirteenth Century International System and the Origins of the Angevin-Piast Alliance
    Defended: December 2014
    Supervisor: Balázs Nagy
  60. Kozubska, Olha | Ukraine
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Urban Development and German Law in Galician Rus’ During the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries
    Defended: June 2007
    Supervisor: Katalin Szende
  61. Kraft, Andras | Germany
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Apocalyptic Horizon in Byzantium: Philosophy, Prophecy and Politics During the Eleventh Through Thirteenth Centuries
    Defended: December 2018
    Supervisor: István Perczel
  62. Kunčević. Lovro | Croatia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation:The Myth of Ragusa: Discourses on Civic Identity in an Adriatic City-State (1350-1600)
    Defended: April 2012
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  63. Kunsmanaitė, Jurgita | Lithuania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Provisions for Widowhood in the Legal Sources of Sixteenth-Century Lithuania
    Defended: February 2009
    Supervisor: Katalin Szende
  64. KurelićRobert | Croatia 
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Eagle and Lion: Integration, Immigration, and Conflict on the Istrian Frontier in the Sixteenth Century
    Defended: March 2013
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  65. Kuzmova, Stanislava | Slovakia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Preaching Saint Stanislaus: Medieval Sermons on Saint Stanislaus of Cracow and Their Role in the Construction of His Image and Cult
    Defended: May 2010
    Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay
  66. La Salvia, Vasco | Italy
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Iron Making in the Migration Period. The Case of the Lombards
    Defended: March 2006
    Supervisor: József Laszlovszky
  67. Ladić, Zoran | Croatia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Urban Last Wills from Late Medieval Dalmatia with Special Attention to the Legacies Pro Remedio Animae
    Defended: May 2002
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  68. Lala, Etleva | Albania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Regnum Albaniae and the Papal Curia
    Defended: November 2008
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  69. Láng, Benedek | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Learned Magic and Its Readers in Central Europe in the Fifteenth Century
    Defended: May 2003
    Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay
  70. Lemeneva, Mayevna Elena | Russian Federation
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Contextualizing Thirteenth-Century Benedictine Preaching: The Case of St. Lambrecht (Styria)
    Defended: September 2005
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  71. Leonte, Florin | Romania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Rhetoric in Purple: the Renewal of Imperial Ideology in the Texts of Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos
    Defended: July 2012
    Supervisor: Niels Gaul
  72. Lyublyanovics, Kyra | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Socio-Economic Integration of Cumans in Medieval Hungary. An Archaeozoological Approach.
    Defended: May 2015
    Supervisor: Alice M. Choyke
  73. Majorossy, Judit | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Church in Town: Urban Religious Life in Late Medieval Pressburg in the Mirror of Last Wills
    Defended: March 2006
    Supervisor: Katalin Szende
  74. Mänd, Anu | Estonia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Urban Festival in Late Medieval Livonia: Norm, Practice, Perception
    Defended: October 2000
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  75. Manolova, Divna | Bulgaria
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Discourses of Science and Philosophy in the Letters of Nikephoros Gregoras
    Defended: October 2014
    Supervisor: Niels Gaul
  76. Mariani, Giacomo | Italy
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Roberto Caracciolo da Lecce’s Sermons as a Source for Religious and Intellectual History of Late Fifteenth-century Italy
    Defended: July 2019
    Supervisors: Gábor Klaniczay, Ottó Gecser
  77. Marinković, Ana | Croatia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Birth and the Agents of an Episcopal Civic Cult: St John of Trogir (12th-15th c.)
    Defended: June 2013
    Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay
  78. Mérai, Dóra | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Memory from the Past, Display for the Future: Early Modern Funeral Monuments from the Transylvanian Principality
    Defended: December 2017
    Supervisor: József Laszlovszky
  79. Mickūnaitė, Giedrė | Lithuania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Grand Duke Vytautas - Establishing Vytautas the Great
    Defended: June 2002
    Supervisor: János M. Bak
  80. Mielke, Christopher | United States of America
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Every Hyacinth the Garden Wears: The Archaeology of Medieval Hungarian Queenship (1000-1395)
    Defended: May 2017
    Supervisors: József Laszlovszky, Alice M. Choyke
  81. Miladinov, Marina | Croatia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Eremitism in Central Europe between East and West (11th Century)
    Defended: May 2003
    Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay
  82. Miladinova, Nadejda| Bulgaria
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Panoplia Dogmatike – A Study on the Antiheretical Anthology of Euthymios Zygadenos in the Post-Byzantine Period (with a History of the First Publication in greek in 1710 and an Edition of Fragments with Scholia on Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite and Gregory of Nazianzos from Iviron 281)
    Defended: December 2010
    Supervisor: István Perczel
  83. Mishin, Jevgenjevič Dmitrij | Russian Federation
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Saqlabi Servants in Islamic Spain and North Africa in the Early Middle Ages
    Defended: February 1999
    Supervisor: János M. Bak
  84. Muntan, Emese | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation : Negotiating Catholic Reform: Global Catholicism and Its Local Agents in Northern Ottoman Rumeli (1570s-1680s)
    Defended: June 2021
    Supervisor: Tijana Krstić
  85. Mustaţă, Radu | Romania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Syriac Legacy of Francisco Roz SJ (1559-1624) in South India
    Defended: October 2022
    Supervisors: István Perczel, Volker Menze
  86. Mutlova, Petra | Czech Republic
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Radicals and Heretics: The Dresden School in Prague
    Defended: January 2011
    Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay
  87. Nastasoiu, Dragoş-Georghe | Romania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation:Between Personal Devotion and Political Propaganda:Iconographic Aspects in the Representation of the sancti reges Hungariae in Church Mural Painting (14th – Early-16th Century)
    Defended: March 2018
    Supervisors: Gábor Klaniczay, Béla-Zsolt Szakács
  88. Nemerkényi, Előd | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Latin Classics in Medieval Hungary 11th Century
    Defended: March 2004
    Supervisor: László Veszprémy
  89. Németh, András | Hungary 
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Imperial Systematization of the Past: Emperor Constantine VII and His Historical Excerpts
    Defended: July 2010
    Supervisor: Niels Gaul
  90. Németh, Csaba | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Contemplation and the Cognition of God. Victorine Theological Anthropology and its Decline
    Defended: September 2013
    Supervisor: György Geréby
  91. Nikolaishvili, Sandro | Georgia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation :Byzantium and the Georgian World c. 900–1210: Ideology of Kingship and Rhetoric in the Byzantine Periphery
    Defended: December 2019
    Supervisor: Ziemann, Daniel
  92. Nikolić, Zrinka | Croatia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Formation of Dalmatian Urban Nobility: Examples of Split, Trogir, and Zadar
    Defended: May 2004
    Supervisor: Neven Budak
  93. Orbán, Áron | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Born for Phoebus. Solar-astral Symbolism and Poetical Self-representation in Conrad Celtis and his Humanist Circles.
    Defended: February 2017
    Supervisor: Szőnyi, György Endre
  94. Pakucs, Mária | Romania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Trade of Sibiu in the 16th C.: The Evidence of the Town's Customs Registers
    Defended: May 2004
    Supervisor: Nagy Balázs
  95. Pálosfalvi Tamás | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Noble Elite in the County of Körös (Križevci) 1400 - 1526
    Defended: March 2012
    Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay
  96. Parvanov, Petar | Bulgaria
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Deviant Burial Practices in Medieval Southeastern Europe (7th-15th century)
    Defended: September 2022
    Supervisor: József Laszlovszky, Alice M. Choyke
  97. Petrova, Taneva Maya | Bulgaria
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Bdinski Sbornik: A Study of a Medieval Bulgarian Book (Historical, Typological, and Textual Analysis)
    Defended: July 2003
    Supervisor: Ralph Cleminson
  98. Petrović, Mišo | Croatia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Development of the Episcopal Office in Medieval Croatia-Dalmatia: The Cases of Split, Trogir and Zadar (1270-1420)
    Defended: September 2021
    Supervisor: Katalin Szende
  99. Plumtree, James | United Kingdom
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: ‘How the Corpse of a Most Mighty King…’ The Use of the Death and Burial of the Monarch (From Edward to Henry I)
    Defended: June 2014
    Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay, Gerhard Jaritz
  100. Pogossian, Zaroui | Armenia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Revised Diplomatic Edition and a Historical and Textual Investigation of "Letter of Love and Concordance between the Emperor Constantine the Great and Pope Sylvester and the King of Armenian Trdat the Great and St. Gregory the Illuminator"
    Defended: December 2004
    Supervisor: István Perczel
  101. Popa-Gorjanu, Alin Cosmin | Romania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Medieval Nobility in Central Europe: The Himfi Family
    Defended: June 2004
    Supervisor: János M. Bak
  102. Pow, Stephen | Canada
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Conquest and Withdrawal: The Mongol Invasions of Europe in the Thirteenth Century
    Defended: March 2020
    Supervisors: Balázs Nagy, József Laszlovszky
  103. Prioteasa, Elena-Dana | Romania 
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Western Influences on the Iconography of Medieval Orthodox Churches in Transylvania 
    Defended: January 2012
    Supervisor: Béla Zsolt Szakács
  104. Putnik, Noel | Serbia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Obtinere Mentem Divinam: The Spiritual Anthropology of Cornelius Agrippa
    Defended: January 2018
    Supervisors: György Endre Szőnyi and György Geréby
  105. Razum, Igor| Croatia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Changing Face of Reform: Roman Ideals and Central European Reflections following the Fourth Lateran Council
    Defended: October 2023
    Supervisors: Daniel Ziemann, Gábor Klaniczay

  106. Réthelyi, Orsolya | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Mary of Hungary in Court Context (1521-1531)
    Defended: February 2010
    Supervisor: Katalin Szende

  107. Rojas Molina, Grabiela | Venezuela
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: A Model to Decode Venetian Senate Deliberations: Pregadi “Talk” on Albanian Territories (1392–1402)
    Defended: December 2020
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz, Katalin Szende, and Julia Benavente (external supervisor)
  108. Sallay, Dóra | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Early Sienese Paintings in Hungarian Collections, 1420-1520
    Defended: June 2008
    Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay
  109. Sarkadi Nagy, Emese | Romania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Produced for Transylvainia - Local Workshops and Foreign Connections. Studies to Late Medieval Altarpieces of Transylvania.
    Defended: March 2008
    Supervisor: Marcell Sebők
  110. Sárosi, Edit  | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Landscapes and Settlements in the Kecskemét Region, 
    1300 1700
    Defended: March 2013
    Supervisors: Katalin Szende and József Laszlovszky
  111. Savinetskaya, Irina | Russia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Politics and Poetics of Morbus Gallicus in the German Lands (1495 - 1520)
    Defended: November 2016
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  112. Schmelowszky, Ágoston | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: "… from my body I behold God" (Job 19, 26): A Contribution to the Revaluation of the Theoretical Background of the Origenist Controversy
    Defended: May 2004
    Supervisor: István Perczel
  113. Shlyakhtin, Roman | Russian Federation
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: From Huns into Persians: The Projected Identity of the Turks in the Byzantine Rhetoric of Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries.
    Defended: September 2016
    Supervisor: Daniel Ziemann, Niels Gaul
  114. Sillasoo, Ülle | Estonia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Plant Depictions in Late Medieval Religious Art in Southern Central Europe
    Defended: June 2003
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  115. Silnović, Nirvana | Croatia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Invicto Mithrae spelaeum fecit: Typology and Topography of Mithraic Temples in the Roman Province of Dalmatia.
    Defended: March 2022
    Supervisor: Volker Menze
  116. Spät, Eszter | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Oral Tradition and its Changes in the Middle East: The Case of Yezidi Mythology and Late Antique Mythopoesis
    Defended: June 2009
    Supervisors: Gerhard Jaritz and István Perczel
  117. Špoljarić, Luka | Croatia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Nicholas of Modruš, 'The Glory of Illyria': Humanist Patriotism and Self-Fashioning in Renaissance Rome
    Defended: June 2013
    Supervisor: Niels Gaul
  118. Stark, Karen | United States of America
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The garden watered by the Virgin Mary: The Marian Landscape of Medieval Hungary (1301–1437)
    Defended: June 2022
    Supervisors: Gábor Klaniczay, József Laszlovszky
  119. Szabó, Péter | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Woodland and Forests in Medieval Hungary
    Defended: May 2003
    Supervisor: József Laszlovszky
  120. Szilágyi, Magdolna | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Árpád Period Communication Networks: Road Systems in Western Transdanubia
    Defended: December 2012
    Supervisors: Katalin Szende and József Laszlovszky
  121. Szőcs, Péter Levente | Romania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Kindred Monasteries of Medieval Hungary: A Case Study of the Ákos Kindred and its Monasteries
    Defended: December 2014
    Supervisors: József Laszlovszky, Béla Zsolt Szakács
  122. Szpilewska, Jolanta | Lithuania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Religious Drama and Performance in Early Modern Krakow
    Defended: July 2003
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  123. Tsonkova, Svetlana | Bulgaria
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Charms, Amulets: Rites: Verbal Magic and Daily Life in Late Medieval and Early Modern Bulgaria
    Defended: June 2015
    Supervisors: Gerhard Jaritz and Gábor Klaniczay
  124. Vadas, András | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Who Stole the Water? The Control and Appropriation of Water Resources in Medieval Hungary
    Defended: March 2020
    Supervisor: Alice M. Choyke, Katalin Szende
  125. Vargha, Mária | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation:The Archaeology of Christianisation of the Rural Countryside of Medieval Hungary
    Defended: December 2019
    Supervisor: József Laszlovszky
  126. Vedriš, Trpimir | Croatia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Hagiography as memory: Saints’ Cults and the Construction of the Past in Medieval Dalmatia
    Defended: April 2015
    Supervisor: Marianne Sághy
  127. Virágos, Gábor | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Noble Residences and Their Social Context in Hungary in the Thirteenth through the Sixteenth Centuries
    Defended: June 2002
    Supervisor: József Laszlovszky
  128. Visi, Tamás | Hungary
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Early Ibn Ezra Supercommentaries: A Chapter in Medieval Jewish Intellectual History
    Defended: May 2006
    Supervisor: György Geréby
  129. Vojvoda, Rozana | Croatia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Dalmatian Illuminated Manuscripts Written in Beneventan Script and Benedictine Scriptoria in Zadar, Dubrovnik, and Trogir
    Defended: June 2011
    Supervisor: Béla Zsolt Szakács
  130. Vuković, Marijana | Serbia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Martyr Memories: The Afterlife of the Martyrdom of Irenaeus of Sirmium between East and West in Medieval Hagiographical Collections (Eighth – Eleventh
    Defended: June 2015
    Supervisor: Marianne Sághy
  131. Żabiński, Grzegorz | Poland
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Mogiła and Henryków: A Comparative Economic History of Cistercian Monasteries within their Social Context (Up to the End of the Thirteenth Century)
    Defended: May 2005
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz
  132. Zazulyak, Yuriy | Ukraine
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Enmity, Dispute and Noble Community in the Late Medieval Kingdom of Poland in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries. Evidence from the Rus' Palatinate.
    Defended: June 2008
    Supervisor: János M. Bak
  133. Zečević, Nada | Yugoslavia
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Tocco of the Greek Realm – Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
    Defended: March 2004
    Supervisor: János M. Bak
  134. Znorovszky, Andrea-Bianka| Romania
    Title of the doctoral dissertation: Between Mary and Christ: Depicting Cross-Dressed Saints in the Middle Ages (c. 1200-1600)
    Defended: June 2016
    Supervisor: Gerhard Jaritz, Marianne Sághy