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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.

Feb
Nicholas Roerich (Nikolai Rerikh): Guests from Overseas

Doctoral Defense of Csete Katona

Csete Katona
Jan
The National Museum of Art of Romania, Inv. 15618

Claiming the throne of Wallachia (15th-16th c.)

Marian Coman
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-211
Jan
In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos (MIT Press, 2023)

In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos (MIT Press 2023) by Oksana Sarkisova (CEU) and Olga Shevchenko (Williams College)

Oksana Sarkisova, Olga Shevchenko
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | QS Auditorium
Jan
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Bestseller hadith commentaries in the early modern Ottoman Empire: The reception of the works of Mullā ‘Alī al-Qārī (d. 1014/1605) in the Balkans and Anatolia

János Galamb
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Jan
: Državni Arhiv u Zadru – 26: Arhiv Omiša, 171/Bogišićeva zbirka, sv. II, no. 20.

Administrative multilingualism and multiscriptualism in the Venetian-Ottoman borderlands of late medieval Dalmatia

Lena Sadovski
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-211
Dec
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Exegesis, Exempla and Invective: The Use of Scripture in Facundus’ In Defense of the Three Chapters

Eric Fournier
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Dec
Dante

Dante’s Political Theology

Matthew Kempshall
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-211
Nov
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The brief rise and fall of the late Ottoman Islamists and their legacy

Andrew Hammond
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Nov
Archival Research

Archival Research and Historical Discoveries: The Example of Contacts between Italy and Central Europe in the 15th Century

Krisztina Arany
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-211
Nov
Theory of the Earth

Open Class: Newtonian Heterodoxies

Karl Hall, Marcell Sebők
Nov
Baukje teaching

Open Class: Literature and Learning at the End of the Byzantine Empire

Baukje van den Berg
Nov
Shaw Open Class

Open Class: Ethnic Jokes and National Humor Cultures

Charles Shaw
Nov
Gender

Open Class: Gendered Materialities

Cristian-Nicolae Gaşpar, Nadia Al-Bagdadi
Nov
PhD Workshop

PhD Colloquium: Environmental Humanities and Environmental History

Péter Szabó, András Vadas
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | B-215
Nov
Volker Menze

Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Reading Group: Reading Session I: Volker Menze, Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria

Volker L. Menze
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-001
Nov
Mongols

All that ever was: The Mongols and Universal History

Stefan Kamola
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-211
Oct
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Imagining Muslim Difference: Najm al-Dīn al-Ghazzī (d. 1651) on Mimesis and Alterity in Islam

Youshaa Patel
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Oct
Innocent III's tomb in the Basilica of St. John in Lateran (photo by Igor Razum)

Doctoral Defense - Igor Razum: The Changing Face of Reform: Roman Ideals and Central European Reflections following the Fourth Lateran Council

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | B-216
Oct
Codex Add. 11870, fol. 67r

Saints’ Prisons: Healing and Cult Places in (Post-)Byzantine Literature and Archaeology

Christodoulos Papavarnavas
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-211
Oct
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Keynote lecture: The Lateran Synod of 649 and the Council of Constantinople of 680-81: Concord and Divergence

Richard Price
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Oct
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From Ctesiphon to Toledo: A Comparative View on Early Church Councils in East and West

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Oct
Volker Menze

Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria: The Last Pharaoh and Ecclesiastical Politics in the Later Roman Empire

Volker L. Menze, Richard Price
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C-419
Sep
Pablo de Santa María

Three Spanish-Jewish Converts and their Modern Reception

Carsten L. Wilke
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-211
Jun
30 Years of Medieval Studies

30 Years Celebration: Current Challenges and Future Trends in Medieval Studies

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Auditorium
Jun
Magda Teter

Anti-Jewish Blood Libels in the Past and the Present

Magda Teter
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-001