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Department of Medieval Studies

The Department of Medieval Studies offers multidisciplinary courses on both the Master’s and the doctoral levels to medievalists from diverse backgrounds such as history, art history, archaeology, philology, philosophy and theology.

Jun
Scenes from the lives of early hermits. Painting attributed to Mariotto di Nardo. Christian Museum, Esztergom, inv. no. 55.168. • Wood, tempera, 81 × 82 cm, c. 1423–2

Doctoral defense of Zsuzsa Eszter Pető

Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | Quantum room 101
Jun
Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Medieval City on a River, 1815

Doctoral defense of Anna Kinde

Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | Quantum room 101
Jun
The Crucifixion from a Prague Missal (between 1366 and 1400), MS XVI.A.12, fol. 137v, Czech National Library Prague.

Doctoral defense of Olga Kalashnikova

Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | Quantum Room 101
Jun
Economic and Population Geography of the Ottoman Empire

Economic and Population Geography of the Ottoman Empire: New Sources and Digital Methodologies for Studying Eurasian History (19th-20th centuries)

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-211
Jun
Paul T.K. Lin’s Hsinghua Photo Collection, HKUST Library

Algorithms and Archives: A Computer Vision Analysis of Photography During China's Cultural Revolution

Qiuzi Guo
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-211
May
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Telling Byzantine History: Current Trends and New Directions

Panagiotis Agapitos, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-001
May
Reimagining Models of the Medieval Caucasus

States, Saints and Storytellers: Reimagining Models of the Medieval Caucasus

James Baille
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-211
May
Aliz Horvath

Analog - Digital - Hybrid: Methodological Varieties in the Intellectual History of East Asian History Writing through the Case of the Japanese Mito School (1657-1906)

Aliz Horvath
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-211
May
London manuscript: Burney 114, f. 1r

Doctoral defense of Juan Bautista Juan Lopez

Juan Bautista Juan Lopez
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A214
May
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Anna Christidou Memorial Lecture: Empires of Learning: Comparative Approaches to Byzantium and Song China in the Long Eleventh Century

Niels Gaul
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | B505
Apr
Part of a sixth-century mosaic featuring the Emperor Justinian I in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna

Doctoral defense of David Rockwell

David Rockwell
Mar
To catch a thief

To catch a thief. On late antique thieves, policemen, neighbours, and unexpected benefits of divination

Robert Wiśniewski
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-211
Mar
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Book talk: Nur Baba: A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D002
Mar
Who’s got the power? Authorship in the Early Reformation

Who’s got the power? Authorship in the Early Reformation

Petra Mutlová
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | B-505
Mar
NZD

Natalie Zemon Davis Memorial Lectures III: Reclaiming Voices - Roundtable in Memory of Natalie Zemon Davis

Ulinka Rublack, István Rév, Gábor Klaniczay, Melanie Newton, Lyndal Roper
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Auditorium
Mar
Self-portrait

Natalie Zemon Davis Memorial Lecture II: Ulinka Rublack, Renaissance Dress and Social Change

Ulinka Rublack
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Auditorium
Mar
Portrait of Ulrich Varnbuler

Natalie Zemon Davis Memorial Lecture I: Dürer, Outerwear and the Politics of Recognition

Ulinka Rublack
Off-campus | Albertina, Vienna
Mar
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Book talk: In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C419
Mar
Of Names, Loanwords, and Curses

Of Names, Loanwords, and Curses: What Language History Can Teach Historians

Cristian-Nicolae Gaşpar
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | B-505
Feb
Portraits

Book Launch: Portraits of Empires

Joachim Whaley, Tijana Krstic, Robyn Dora Radway
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Auditorium
Feb
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3rd Annual Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Graduate Workshop

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-001
Feb
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Sailing Beyond the Epic: The Wanderings of Odysseus as Paradigm of Spiritual Virtue in the Writings of Manuel Gabalas

Juan Bautista Juan-López
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Feb
Performance of the Epic of King Gesar in Tibet (from: https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/gesar-epic-tradition-00204)

New Romans, Greeks or Byzantines? Perceptions of the medieval Roman Empire of the East from within and from afar across Afro-Eurasia

Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-211
Feb
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From Dubrovnik to Istanbul: The Evolution of a Catholic Diplomatic Family in the Ottoman Empire

Vjeran Kursar (University of Zagreb)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C419
Feb
Soul, Body, and Gender

Book Launch: Soul, Body, and Gender in Late Antiquity Essays on Embodiment and Disembodiment

Istvan Perczel, Susan Visvanathan, Jasmina Lukic, Gyorgy Laszlo Gereby, Ecaterina Lung
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-211