Matej Cermak | Czech Republic

Topic at CEU: The Hostageship in the Late Medieval Bohemia and Poland 

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

Aleksandar Andjelovic | Serbia
Topic at CEU: Between the Literal and the Literary: Social Background, Linguistic Competence, and the Bible in the Late-Antique Latin Translations of the Vita Antonii

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.

Ágnes Font | Hungary
Topic at CEU: Medieval Bone Working in Buda: Operation, Interrelation, and Spatial Distribution of Workshops Between the 14-17th Century

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.

Sebastian Krasnovsky | Slovakia
Topic at CEU: Johannes Filiczki as a Renaissance Man: Identities and Self-fashioning

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
Topic at CEU: Ancient Commentators of Aristotle on Homonymy and Synonymy

Supervisor: György Geréby

Glenn Mills | UK
Topic at CEU: Christianity’s Judicial Voice: Legal Elements in Early Christian Ritual and Rhetoric

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
Topic at CEU: The Ambitious Mystic: Self-Authority, Public Sanctity and its Pitfalls in the Case of Magdalena de la Cruz 

Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay

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: Sailors and the Maritime Culture of the Middle Byzantine Period

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