The collective volume Unus non sufficit orbis". Roma e le missioni europee nel secondo Seicento has been published as the 13th volume in the Studi di storia delle istituzioni ecclesiastiche series by Sette Città, edited by Alessandro Boccolini, Massimo Carlo G…
On 2 March 2026, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth, a commemorative conference dedicated to Pope Pius XII was held in the Sala dei Cardinali of the Oratory associated with the church of Santa Maria in Vallicella (Chiesa Nuova) in Rome. The …
The latest volume of the Vatican–Hungarian historical series (Collectanea Vaticana Hungariae, CVH I/27) bears the title „Fraknói Vilmos és a püspöki kar. Küzdelem a Szent István római történeti, művészeti és egyházművelődési intézet megalapításáért (1910–1913)…
The latest volume of the Collectanea Vaticana Hungariae series (CVH I/26) has been published under the title In the Shadow of Mohács: Two Decades in the History of Hungarian–Ottoman Affairs (1519–1541). The work is the book version of the author’s doctoral dis…
On 11 February 2026, the Fraknói Research Group, in cooperation with the Medieval Evenings lecture series, presented two newly published volumes by its members at its central research venue, the Faculty of Humanities of Pázmány Péter Catholic University. The b…
In 2025, the volume Protagonisti e Collaboratori – Studiosi provenienti dall’Europa centro-orientale presso gli archivi della Santa Sede tra il 1881 e il 1918 (“Protagonists and Collaborators: Scholars from Central and Eastern Europe in the Archives of the Hol…
Tamás Kruppa gave an interview to Vatican Radio about the documentary edition of Ferenc Forgách edited by him (Documenta of Ferenc Forgách, CVH II/9). In the course of the interview, he spoke with Fr László Vértesaljai about the former Archbishop of Esztergom,…
On 12 August 2023, the consecration of the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Eszteregnye took place. The liturgy was celebrated by Szabolcs Benedek Fekete, Auxiliary Bishop of Szombathely. In the afternoon, at the invitation of Fr Gottfrie…
In connection with the papal visit, the Fraknói Research Group has been actively involved in the organisation of several events in recent weeks. On 11 April, at the invitation of Pázmány Péter Catholic University, the Research Group participated in the prepara…
On the occasion of Pope Francis’s visit to Hungary, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Pázmány Péter Catholic University featured interviews with two members of the Fraknói Research Group, Gábor Nemes and Viktor Kanász, in the latest episode of H…
On 25 March 2023, an interview with Tamás Kruppa, Senior Research Fellow of the Fraknói Research Group, was broadcast on Vatican Radio. The conversation focused on his volume Papal Troops in Hungary (1595–1597, 1601), published as CVH I/17, which is available …
On 10 March 2023 at 5:00 p.m., the second session of the Seminario permanente di Storia del Papato (Permanent Seminar on the History of the Papacy) was held, a new initiative jointly launched by the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Archivum Historiae Po…
On 8–9 December 2024, the international conference ANTEMURALE CHRISTIANITATIS. Central Europe and the Western Balkans as the Bulwarks of Christianity was held at the Várkert Bazár in Budapest, with the collaboration of the Fraknói Research Group. Three members…
Between 7 and 9 November 2024, the Conference of Young Scholars (FIKON), entitled Temporality and Memory: Past and Future in Antiquity, was held at the University of Szeged. The conference venues were the Rector’s Building of the University of Szeged and, on t…
The Fraknói Research Group attaches particular importance to the dissemination of the results of its fundamental scholarly research. In this spirit, during 2023, and on the basis of an agreement concluded with the historical magazine Múlt-kor, members of the F…
On 29 February 2024, beginning at 5:30 p.m., the book launch of Secretum, Papi, guerre, spie: misteri dell’Archivio Vaticano svelati dal Prefetto che lo guida da un quarto di secolo, Intervista con Mons. Sergio Pagano (Popes, Wars, Spies: Mysteries of the Vati…
On 3 April 2024, Tamás Fedeles, co-head of the Fraknói Research Group and Head of Department Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Pécs, delivered a lecture entitled “The Last Medieval Hungarian Duke: Lawrence of Ilok …
On 6 April, Gábor Nemes, Senior Research Fellow of the Fraknói Research Group, appeared on the Hungarian television channel M5 in the history magazine programme História, which focused on Cardinal Tamás Bakócz, Archbishop of Esztergom. Drawing also on the resu…
On 23 May 2024, Volume XXI of the series Publikationen der ungarischen Geschichtsforschung in Wien (PUGW) was presented in Vienna. The monograph by István Fazekas, Die ungarische Hofkanzlei und ihre Beamten von 1527 bis 1690, was introduced by Thomas Winkelbau…
On 16–17 October 2024, the conference entitled Peaces and Treaties. Diplomatic History from Louis I to Francis II Rákóczi was held in Szeged, at the headquarters of the Szeged Academic Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZAB) and at the premis…