On 8 November 2024, the Military History Working Committee of the Pécs Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA PAB), in cooperation with the Paks Town Museum, organised the conference entitled Military History across the Ages. Recent Results of Military Historical Research in Southern Transdanubia II (Hadtörténet korszakokon át. Az újabb hadtörténeti kutatások eredményei a Dél-Dunántúlról II.) in Paks, where Viktor Kanász delivered a paper.
In his presentation, Reports and Military Plans of the Vienna Nunciature Concerning the Blockade and Recapture of Kanizsa (1689–1690), Kanász analysed Holy See–related sources discovered during his research trips to the Vatican, shedding light on the blockade and recapture of Kanizsa. One of the most reliable indicators of the Holy See’s attention to military affairs can be observed in the activity of the papal nunciatures accredited to the Viennese court, above all in the content of their regular reports sent to the Eternal City. Accordingly, alongside outlining the framework of Holy See–Habsburg relations, the lecture examined the reports and military plans of the Vienna nunciature in order to assess how well informed Rome was about events during the pontificates of Popes Innocent XI and Alexander VIII, and how the nunciature itself sought to influence military developments.
(The written version of the paper will be published in the 2024 volume of Zalai Múzeum.)
In addition, on 5 November, at the Deák Ferenc County and City Library in Zalaegerszeg, Kanász spoke on the occasion of the presentation of the Historia Transdanubiana volume. His lecture addressed the relationship between József Mindszenty and the curacy of Eszteregnye, the 1936 jubilee of the Eszteregnye church, and the subsequent fate of its main altarpiece.
