Austrian Minister of Science Meets With Medieval Studies Research Team

May 10, 2013

Austrian Federal Minister for Science and Research Karlheinz Tochterle met with the research team of the Department of Medieval Studies April 22 to hear about the EuroCORECODE research project “Symbols that Bind and Break Communities. Saints' Cults” http://cultsymbols.net. Austria is among the five participating countries and its team is led by Gerhard Jaritz, a lecturer at CEU. The project is based at CEU, directed by Professor Gabor Klaniczay and financed by OTKA, the Hungarian Science Research Fund. A consultation and a presentation of medieval codices was held for Minister Tochterle at the National Szechenyi Library.