December 16, 2014
“The Panoplia Dogmatike by Euthymios Zygadenos,” by Nadia Miladinova (MEDS MA ‘04, PhD ‘11), gives snapshots of the history of the authoritative anthology, the “Panoplia Dogmatike” in the early modern period and uses sources previously regarded unrelated to the Panoplia. Created in the 12th century, the Panoplia Dogmatike is one of the Byzantine anthologies that became a key source for Orthodox theology. The anthology is known in more than 140 Greek manuscripts. In the 14th century it was translated into Old Church Slavonic.
December 1, 2014
Eszter Spat, research fellow in CEU's Department of Medieval Studies, is quoted in this Housted Chronicle article about the plight of the Yazidis.
November 12, 2014
http://nol.hu/kulfold/budapesti-egyetemista-vitte-utcara-a-romanokat-1497817 - Hungarian news portal nol.hu reports: It was a university student from Budapest who organized the protests in Cluj-Napoca on Saturday and Sunday. 23-year-old Andrei Farcas is studying in the master’s program in the Department of Medieval History at CEU.
October 7, 2014
As an expression of CEU's commitment to strengthen the humanities, a call was issued earlier this year inviting proposals by CEU faculty members. The aim of the Humanities Initiative is to provide incentives for new cross-departmental and interdisciplinary research and teaching activities in the humanities (and to help existing ones to gain a firmer footing), and to infuse our social science programs with perspectives, approaches and accomplishments taken from the humanities.
October 6, 2014
Hungarian Fejer country daily Fejer Megyei Hirlap reports: On October 13, a memorial conference was organized under the title Coats of arms and families (“Cimerek es csaladok”) by the CEU Department of Medieval Studies in remembrance of Szabolcs Vajay in the Karolyi castle.
Due to copyright regulations, the article is available in the paper (p. 7, Csaladi cimer)
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.



