September 23, 2014
Peter Bokody, a graduate of both the Master's and PhD programs in the Department of Medieval Studies, edited the newly published catalogue “Image and Christianity: Visual Media in the Middle Ages.” The bilingual volume (in English and Hungarian) catalogs two recent exhibitions from the Benedictine Archabbey of Pannonhalma – one of the oldest historical monuments in Hungary. The aim of the exhibitions is to show to the viewer the various forms and media of image-worship in medieval Christianity.
September 23, 2014
As in previous years, CEU participated in the annual nationwide project, Cultural Heritage Days, Hungary (Kulturális Örökség Napjai), part of European Heritage Days, on Sept. 20 and 21. CEU’s participation was organized by the Center for Arts and Culture, the Cultural Heritage Studies Program, and the External Relations Office.
September 9, 2014
The Annual of Medieval Studies, celebrates its 20th year by reporting on the Department’s own 20th anniversary. The anniversary volume includes a two-voice presentation on “Latin and Greek Middle Ages” by visiting professors Patrick Geary from Princeton University and Claudia Rapp from the University of Vienna.The Annual also presents a selection of articles by recently graduated MA students, offering a wide range of subjects, chronologically, topically, and geographically.
September 9, 2014
Edited by Gergely Buzas, director of King Matthias Museum in VIsegrad, and József Laszlovszky, professor in the Department of Medieval Studies, this volume is the first comprehensive monograph on the archaeological investigations, objects, finds, reconstruction and restoration of the Visegrad palace complex published in English. It is also a revised, extended and in some other parts compressed version of a volume published in Hungarian in 2010.
September 9, 2014
CEU welcomes students this month to its new two-year master’s program, Cultural Heritage Studies: Academic Research, Policy, Management, which was accredited by the State Education Department/The University of the State of New York in May 2014. The program aims to educate future heritage practitioners through developing aptitudes for critical assessment, the ability to reflect on major and minor, theoretical and practical, issues of managing or otherwise treating cultural heritage.



