Organised by the Fraknói Research Group, Andreas Rehberg, the distinguished medievalist of the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom (DHI), delivered two lectures at Pázmány Péter Catholic University on 20 November 2025. He first gave a classroom lecture entitled Councils, Emperors, Legates and Cursores. What the Repertorium Germanicum Can Tell the Hungarians – Traces from the Pontificate of Eugene IV (1431–1447), followed by a second presentation, L’ordine di S. Spirito (in Sassia) e l’Ungheria: l’arte di operare in periferia, in which he discussed his most recent research findings.
The Vilmos Fraknói Vatican Historical Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Péter Pázmány Catholic University was established in the June of 2012 as the ‘Impetus’ Church History Research Group in the frame of the Church History Research Institute of the University founded by Rector Péter Erdő in 1999. It carries on independently the latter’s publications (Bibliotheca Historiae Ecclesiasticae Universitatis Catholicae de Petro Pázmány Nuncupatae) and researches in Rome and in Vienna, with the involvement of academic and other funding sources.
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