Following up on last year’s roundtable organized by the Balkan Studies Research Unit and focusing on the rich collections from archives of Roman Catholic institutions – such as the Congregation of Propaganda Fide, the Holy Office, and the Society of Jesus –, this roundtable aims to put sources drawn from regional archives in the center of the study of the confessional and religious history of the Balkans. Researchers working on different regions, themes,..
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Roundtable: Church Slavonic and the Romanian-Speaking Lands – Vladislav Knoll
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…
Workshop: Working with Monastic Repositories:Navigating Access, Preservation, and Knowledge Production
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…
ELTE | ORTHPOL | ISEES WORKSHOP: UNKNOWN AND FORGOTTEN ROMANIAN CATECHISMS (Late 17th Century – Early 18th Century)
The workshop seeks to discuss the unpublished theological works of Đorđe Branković (Ђорђе Бранковић) / Gheorghe Brancovici (d. 1711).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 …
ORTHPOL Workshop Forgiveness (Please?) Strategies and Practices of Absolution in Eastern Orthodoxy in the Early Modern and Modern Periods
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…
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…