Position: Senior Research Fellow, Principal Investigator

Department: Early Modern History, SMALLST ERC project

Address:1097 Budapest, 4 Tóth Kálmán Street

Room: B.4.26

Phone: +36 1 224-6700/4697

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QUALIFICATIONS

Ph.D. in the Comparative History of Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe, Central European University (Budapest), 2010

Ph.D. in Early Modern Hungarian History, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), 2009

M.A. in History, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), 2002

M.A. in Scandinavian Studies (Swedish specialization), Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), 2002

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

17^th century, Transylvania, Ottoman tributary states, diplomacy

PROJECTS

2022–    “The Diplomacy of Small States in Early Modern South-eastern Europe”, an international research project financed by the European Research Council’s Consolidator Grant, aims at identifying the commonalities and differences in the foreign policy of small polities at the borderlands between the Ottoman Empire and Christian Europe in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries (principal investigator).

2017–2023 “Sources of the Kingdom of Hungary’s Diplomatic Relations with the Ottoman Empire”, a research project financed by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (Hungary), aimed at compiling source publications that contain sixteenth-century reports of Habsburg envoys in Constantinople, as well as the correspondence of the beylerbeys of Buda from the early seventeenth century (principal investigator).

2015–2021 “Nation, patria, religion and liberty – old and new discourses in the texts of the Bocskai uprising and in seventeenth-century Hungarian political thought”, a research project financed by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (Hungary), aimed at mapping up discursive strategies in early modern Hungarian political thought, and producing anthologies with the key texts (contributor).

2015 “The Place of the European Tributary States on the Periphery of the Ottoman Empire”, a project financed by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, aimed at organizing a conference on the contacts between the Ottoman tributary states’ contacts with the empire’s peripheries, as well as the publication of its results.

PUBLICATIONS

A complete list of publications: mtmt.hu

List of selected publications:

• Confession and Politics in the Principality of Transylvania 1644–1657. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 69.) Göttingen: Vandehoeck & Ruprecht, 2020.
• A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey in East Central Europe: The Life of Jakab Harsányi Nagy. (The History of Oriental Studies, 2.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015.
• (edited by) The Princes of Transylvania in the Thirty Years War. (Central and Eastern Europe, 10.) Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2023.
• (edited by) Tributaries and Peripheries of the Ottoman Empire. (The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage: Politics, Society and Economy, 70.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020.
• (edited by, with Lovro Kunčević as co-editor) The European Tributary States of the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. (The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage: Politics, Society and Economy, 53.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013.
• (edited by, with the contributions of Mahmut Halef Cevrioğlu, Ilona Dorogi, Miklós Fóti, László Glück, Gellért Ernő Marton and Mónika F. Molnár)The Correspondence of the Beylerbeys of Buda 1617–1630. Budapest: Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History and Szeged: University of Szeged, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022.
• “Grand Dragoman Zülfikar Aga.” Archivum Ottomanicum 35 (2018): 5–29.
• “Transylvanian Envoys at Buda: Provinces and Tributaries in Ottoman International Society.” In: Hennings, Jan – Sowerby, Tracey (eds.): Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World c. 1410–1800. Abingdon: Routledge, 2017. 44–64.
• “Translation at the Seventeenth-Century Transylvanian Embassy in Constantinople”. In: Born, Robert – Puth, Andreas (eds.): Osmanische Orient und Ostmitteleuropa: Perzepzionen und Interaktionen in den Grenzzonen zwischen dem 16. und 18. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2014. 253–277.
• “Gábor Bethlen's Diplomats at the Protestant Courts of Europe”. Hungarian Historical Review 2 (2013): 790–823.