This presentation marks the publication in 2024 of a trilogy dedicated to the use of Church Slavonic and other Slavic-based language varieties among Romanian-speaking communities in Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania from the late Middle Ages to the Early Modern period.
The work traces the evolution, diversity, and functions of Slavonic writing across the territories of present-day Romania and the Republic of Moldova…
Organized within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence ‘EurAsian Transformations’ and its Work Package on the multilingual archival holdings of the Athonite monastery of Zograf, this workshop focuses on the concrete practices of working with monastic archives. It brings together scholars with direct experience in accessing…
The workshop seeks to discuss the unpublished theological works of Đorđe Branković (Ђорђе Бранковић) / Gheorghe Brancovici (d. 1711). A fascinating figure, Branković is mostly known for his political projects and historiographical work. However, since the manuscripts containing his theological contributions …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Recent scholarship has emphasized the Ottoman Empire as an “empire of diversity,” highlighting fluid identities, legal pluralism, and cultural hybridity. Yet, despite the abundance…
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…
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…
Printed media have been described as antagonistic to the art of icon painting and the act of venerating holy images. This paper …