On 7–8 October 2026, the Hungarian Accreditation Committee (MAB) conducted an on-site visit to Pázmány Péter Catholic University. During the visit, the Committee learned about the University’s activities through a series of thematic sessions. The Fraknói Resea…
The award ceremony for the competition The Role of the Batthyány Family in Halting the Ottoman Conquest, organised by the Hungarian Batthyány Foundation, was held on 5 October 2026 at the Budapest University Catholic Secondary School. First prize was awarded t…
A new international series jointly published by the Fraknói Research Group, the Collegium Professorum Hungarorum, and the Gyula Moravcsik Institute has been appearing since 2024 under the title Storia d'Ungheria – History of Hungary, published by the Viterbo-b…
Tamás Fedeles, Tutte le strade portano a Roma? L’ordinazione dei chierici ungheresi nella Curia Romana 1426–1523 (Storia d’Ungheria 3), Viterbo: Sette Città 2026. 366 p. Do all roads lead to Rome? Ordination of Hungarian clerics in the Roman Curia (1426–152…
As the latest event in the lecture series “With God’s Help, We Shall Soon Engage the Enemy” („Isten segítségével mindjárt megütközünk”), organised by the Archives of the Archdiocese of Veszprém in connection with the anniversary of the Battle of Mohács, Tamás …
On 15 September 2026, the Thúry György Museum in Nagykanizsa organised a conference entitled Mohács 500 at the Medgyaszay House. The Fraknói Research Group, which has been actively involved in research on Mohács for several years, was represented at the event …
On the morning of 14 September 2026, Pope Leo XIV opened the first chapter of the exhibition series entitled Catastrophe and Wonder (Catastrofe e meraviglia), the exhibition AQVA, at the Vatican Apostolic Library in Rome. His visit was at once a scholarly and …
One of the principal research priorities of the Fraknói Research Group’s work in the Vatican Archives is the study of relations between the Holy See and Hungary in the late medieval and early modern periods. Accordingly, in recent years members of the Research…
Professor Alessandro Boccolini and the Fraknói Research Group have maintained a close and sustained scholarly collaboration for more than fifteen years. This cooperation has been centred primarily on the research activities of the University of Tuscia’s resear…
ALESSANDRO BOCCOLINI, Letters from Vienna. Correspondence of Antonio Colletti with Cardinal Carlo Barberini (1681–1684) (CVH I/28), Budapest–Roma 2026. 352 p. "Letters from Vienna" critically reconstructs a crucial period in the history of Central and Easte…
On the afternoon of 21 July 2026, István Bácskai (22 July 1956, Szentes) was honoured with a surprise volume at the 'Gondolat Olvasó' in Szentkirályi Street. On this occasion, the celebrant received the festschrift OSIRIS & GONDOLAT: A 70th Birthday Tribute to…
On 25 March 2026, the ceremonial hall of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences hosted the presentation of the festschrift inspired by the eightieth birthday of Professor László Solymosi, Member of the Academy. (László Solymosi: Studies on the Medieval History of t…
On 11 March 2026, the inaugural event of the new lecture series Polacchi a Roma: itinerari culturali e politici nel Seicento took place online under the auspices of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani. The programme focused on the Roman journey of Jakub Sob…
The Fraknói Research Group, in cooperation with Pázmány Péter Catholic University, the University of Pécs, the Pécs Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Collegium Professorum Hungarorum, organised the 12th Fraknói Summer Academy bet…
Fraknói Research Group Represented at International Conference on Barberini Rome Between 10 and 12 June 2026, the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani, the Fondazione Camillo Caetani di Sermoneta, and the Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea jointly h…
On 8 June 2026, the latest research findings on the schools and religious houses of the former Austrian Jesuit Province were presented at the seminar of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research (Institutsseminar des Instituts für Österreichische Geschich…
On 3 June 2026, Viktor Kanász, Research Fellow of the Fraknói Research Group, delivered a public lecture entitled From Rome to Mohács: Papal Troops in the Ottoman Wars at the Balaton Museum in Keszthely as part of the museum’s lecture series Ottoman Evenings a…
On 3 June 2026, Gábor Nemes, Senior Research Fellow of the Fraknói Research Group, delivered a lecture entitled From Petition to Bull: An Introduction to Papal Diplomatics at the Archabbey of Pannonhalma as part of the Latin Diplomatic Language Seminar Week or…
Between 17 and 25 May 2026, the Fraknói Research Group held its customary annual institutional week in Rome. As in 2023, 2024, and 2025, the Saint Stephen House (Szent István Ház) once again served as the group's base of operations, symbolically continuing the…
On 11 May 2026, an online round-table discussion was held to present the volumes containing the proceedings of the conference series I Collegi per stranieri a Roma. Organised jointly by the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani and the Centro Studi Emigrazione, t…