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…
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…
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 …