Position: Research Fellow

Department: Early Modern History

Address: 1097 Budapest, 4 Tóth Kálmán Street

Room: B.5.30.

Phone: +36 1 224-6700/4644

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QUALIFICATIONS

Ph.D. in Ottoman History, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest) Faculty of Humanities, 2009

M.A. in Ottoman-Turkish Studies, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest) Faculty of Humanities, 2001

M.A. in History, Janus Pannonius University (Pécs) Faculty of Humanities, 1999

M.A. in Italian Studies, Janus Pannonius University (Pécs) Faculty of Humanities, 1997

RESEARCH EXPERTISE  

16-17^th century, Hungary-Italy-Ottoman Empire, diplomacy, peace negotiations, borders, everyday life

PROJECTS

2023-2025. Network of transnational relations (and cultural transfer) between Buda and Naples from the 14^th to the 18^th centuries. Bilateral mobility project between  CNR of Naples (lead by Paola Avallone) and  MTA of Budapest (lead by Mónika F. Molnár)

2019-2022. Circulation of People, Goods and Cultures in Two European Areas: Hungary and Southern Italy between the 15th and 21th Centuries. Bilateral mobility project between CNR of Naples (lead by Paola Avallone)and MTA of Budapest (lead by Mónika F. Molnár)

2017–2022. Hungarian National Research Found PD n. 124178. Diplomatic sources concerning the Ottoman contacts of the Kingdom of Hungary (16th–17th centuries). Lead by Gábor Kármán

2012–2016. Hungarian National Research Found PD n. 105020. Personal Network of Italian Military Writers and Diplomats between Vienna and Istanbul in the 17th Century

2010–2013. Bolyai János Research Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Az oszmánok nyugati szemmel. Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli török vonatkozású tevékenysége= The Ottomans in the Western sources. Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli’s Activity

PUBLICATIONS  

A complete list of publications: mtmt.hu

List of selected publications:

• Olasz hadi írók és generálisok Bécs és Isztambul között. L. F. Marsigli és kortársai. Budapest: reciti (2016) 242 p. (Scrittori militari e generali italiani tra Vienna ed Istanbul. L. F. Marsigli e i suoi contemporanei - Italian military writers and generals between Vienna and Istanbul. L. F. Marsigli and his contemporaries) http://reciti.hu/2016/3934.
• Hungarian translation, notes, prolog and index of Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli:Stato militare dell’Impero Ottomano, incremento e decremento del medesimo. (Haya-Amsterdam, 1732.): Az Oszmán Birodalom katonai állapotáról, felemelkedéséről és hanyatlásáról.  Budapest: Históriaantik Könyvesház (2007) 307 p.
• „The Military Organization and Armies of the Italian States (1494–1526).” In On the verge of a new era: armies of Europe at the time of the battle of Mohács, ed. B. Szabó, János – Fodor, Pál. Budapest: ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities (2021) 199–214.
• „The Ottoman Empire, Hungary and Vienna in the network of Antonio Caraffa at the end of 17th Century.” In CIEPO-22 Uluslararası Osmanlı Öncesi ve Osmanlı Calışmaları Komitesi Bildiriler Kitabı 1-2., ed. Kenan, İnan –  Miraç, Tosun  – Deniz, Çolak.  Trabzon: Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi (2018) 1, 389–399.
• „An Italian Information Agent in the Hungarian Theatre of War: Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli between Vienna and Constantinople.” In Diplomacy, Information Flow and Cultural Exchange, ed. Simon Brzeziński – Áron Zarnóczki, A Divided Hungary in Europe. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, (2014) 2: 85–105.
• „The Crisis of the Ottoman Empire Seen by 17-18th-century Italians.” In Empires and Nations from the18th  to the 20th  century. ed. Antonello Biagini – Giovanna Motta. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2014) Volume I. 39–48.
• „Borders of the Ottoman Empire: Theoretical Questions, Solutions in Practice (1699-1856).” In Regions, Borders, Societies and Identities in Central- and Southeast Europe 17 ^th - 21 ^th . ed. Penka Peykovska – Gábor Demeter. Sofia-Budapest (2013) 35–49.
• „Der Friede von Karlowitz und das Osmanische Reich.” In Frieden und Konfliktmanagement in interkulturellen Räumen. Das Osmanische Reich und die Habsburgmonarchie in der Frühen Neuzeit, ed. Norbert Spannenberg – Arno Strohmeyer (Forschungen zur Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Mitteleuropa 45.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner-Verlag (2013) 197–220.
• Nuova visione degli intellettuali italiani sulla cultura musulmana del Seicento: Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli e Giovanni Battista Donado sulla letteratura e scienza praticata dai Turchi. In Nuova Corvina 24 (2012) 57–70.
•  „Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli e gli Ottomani. La frontiera asburgico-ottomana dopo la pace di Carlowitz.” In La politica, la scienza, le armi. Luigi Ferdinando Marsili e la costruzione della frontiera dell’Impero e dell’Europa, ed. Gherardi Raffaella, Bologna: CLUEB (2010) 147–172.