The workshop seeks to explore strategies and practices for securing absolution of sins in the Eastern Orthodox world during the early modern and modern periods…
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ORTHPOL Workshop Ink Worlds: Illuminated Liturgical Manuscripts from the Ottoman World (Late Sixteenth – Early Eighteenth Century)
In the last quarter of the 16th century and the first decades of the 17th, two major centers for the production of Greek manuscripts emerged in Wallachia. The first and more influential was…
ORTHPOL Workshop Intercultural Aspects in Southeast European Religious Politics (Early Modern and Modern Periods)
Following the IHR / NHRF, MIET, and ORTHPOL workshop Scripts and Languages in the Pre-National Ottoman Balkans (Early Modern and Modern Periods), held in Athens…
Roundtable: The Roman Archives and the Study of Religious Communities and Interreligious Relations in the Early Modern Ottoman Europe
This roundtable explores the rich potential of the Roman archives – particularly those of the Vatican and various religious congregations – for advancing the study of religious communities and interreligious relations in the early…
Book Launch: Antal Molnár – Catholic Confessionalization in Early Modern Moldavia: The Synod of Cotnari and the Speculum Ordinis of Bartolomeo Bassetti OFMConv. (1642)
Antal Molnár’s book, published in 2025 by Libreria Editrice Vaticana (Pontificio Comitato di Scienze Storiche – Atti e Documenti 73) represents a major contribution to the field. In addition…
IHR / NHRF & MIET & ORTHPOL Workshop Scripts and Languages in the Pre-National Ottoman Balkans (Early Modern and Modern Periods)
Recent scholarship has emphasized the Ottoman Empire as an “empire of diversity,” highlighting fluid identities, legal pluralism, and cultural hybridity. Yet, despite the abundance…
Exhibition Ikonen-Museum Recklinghausen Icons in-Between: Eastern Christian Art from Border Areas. Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Western Balkans, Greece
The Icons In-Between exhibition is dedicated to Eastern Church art, highlighting the cultural exchange between East and West from the 15th to the early 20th century. The exhibition is the first of its kind…
IOS REGENSBURG & ORTHPOL Workshop “Religious Groups and Ethnic Minorities: Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in the Long 20th Century”
The long 20th century in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe witnessed an accelerated expansion of the national state, its bureaucracies and repressive apparatus. This workshop tackles state encounters with ethnic minorities and religious groups perceived as different from the majority population…
Justin Willson’s Lecture On Paper: Print and Iconicity in the Balkans and Beyond (“Balkan Research at the ÖAW” Lecture Series)
Printed media have been described as antagonistic to the art of icon painting and the act of venerating holy images. This paper …
MOSCULT & ORTHPOL Workshop “Strategies of Sainthood: Local Saints in Premodern Eastern and South Eastern Europe”
The veneration of local saints has been a fundamental component of incorporating newly baptized territories into the Eastern …
ORTHPOL Roundtable at the 55th ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies) Annual Convention (Philadelphia, PA)
The aim of this roundtable is to introduce the ORTHPOL project to wider audiences and to advocate an interconnected and trans-regional …
TRANSOTTOMANICA – ORTHPOL Workshop. “Religion Matters: Interreligious Encounters in the Trans-Ottoman Setting”
How much do we know about interreligious and interconfessional encounters in the Early Modern period? Where do we draw the line…