The book "Papa, non più papa. La rinuncia pontificia nella storia e nel diritto canonico" (a cura di Amedeo Feniello e Mario Prignano, Viella, Roma 2022) has launched on 10 January 2023 in Rome at Palazzo Firenze. The two main speakers were the President of t…
György Sági, scientific secretary of the Fraknói Research Group was a guest of Kossuth Radio. The interview focused on Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who passed away on the last day of the year at the age of 95, the personality of Joseph Ratzinger, his image of t…
As in previous years (see e.g. 2018 Budapest, 2019 Rome, 2021 Romema), the Fraknói Research Group continues its active cooperation with the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani and the Centre for Papal History and Central European Studies at the University of …
On 13 December 2022, the latest volume of the Collectanea Vaticana Hungariae (CVH I/21) series, Hungary and the Holy See of Rome III, was presented in the Bogdánffy Szilárd Hall of the Central Seminary in Budapest. At the beginning of the event, Péter Tusor, …
On 2 December 2022, a conference was organised in the building of the Pécs Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, co-organised by the Fraknói Research Group, to present the latest research results on the Battle of Mohács (1526). Tamás Fedeles…
On 21 November, the VIIth academic workshop seminar of the Fraknói Research Group took place at Brenner János Theological College in Győr, where Gábor Nemes and Tamás Kruppa presented their research and the volumes presenting the results of their research. …
On 9th November 2022, the conference "The role of the Jesuit Order in the development and later operation of the University of Kolozsvár" was held in the Rector's headquarter at University of Szeged. The speakers gave an overview of the Jesuit Order in Transyl…
On the occasion of the presentation of the Collectanea Vaticana Hungariae volumes at the German Historical Institute in Rome, Gábor Nemes and Tamás Fedeles gave interviews to Vatican Radio. You can listen to Gábor Nemes' interview here here (from 6:50) and …
On 17 October 2022, the international launch of the latest publications of the Collectanea Vaticana Hungariae series (I/18, II/8, II/10) took place at the German Historical Institute in Rome (Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom), organised by the host inst…
On 22 September 2022, the book „I Barberini e l’Europa” was presented in Budapest, in the Chapter Hall of the Central Seminary, in the framework of an international cooperation between Péter Tusor and Alessandro Boccolini. The book contains the work of twelve…
An important source base for the scientific work of the Fraknó Research Group is the 17th century canonical investigation records. Continuing the work begun with the publication of the processus informativus of Péter Pázmány (1616–163 7) (CVH II/6), this volu…
Stephen Bathory-Báthory István-Stefan Batory: Shape and Effect in International Comparison a conference on the reign of the Transylvanian prince and Polish king Báthory István (1571-1586) was held at the ELTE BTK between 14–16 September. Speakers from differen…
An important task of the Fraknói Research Group is to support the day-to-day scientific work of the Vatican Archives. This activity was already a feature of the years preceding the creation of CVH in 2002. The nature of this activity is described in the corres…
The public defense of the doctoral thesis of Viktor Kanász, research fellow of the Fraknói Research Group, was held on September 7 at the University of Pécs. The dissertation, Hungary and the Holy See in the mid-16th century, was conducted by Péter Tusor and T…
The Fraknói Summer Academy was held for the eighth time this year. This time, following the principle of "back to the roots", the event took place in Piliscsaba, the former campus of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Pázmány Péter Catholic U…
The 5th volume of the Acta Barberiniana, a series of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani and the Università della Tuscia, is published in Viterbo. The series aims to publish and process the rich manuscript material of the Barberini dynasty of Pope Urban VII…
On July 1st 2022, the Fraknói Research Group participated in the annual event of the medievalists, represented by Gábor Nemes, Viktor Kanász and György Sági, as in the previous year. At this year's event, the Research Group's latest publications were also avai…
At the invitation of András Koltai, President of the Hungarian Association of Ecclesiastical Archivists (MELTE), György Sági, research assistant of the Fraknói Research Group, also participated as a speaker at this year's conference. This year's event of the H…
On 9-10 June 2022, a two-day conference entitled The History of Church History in Hungary was held at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Miskolc. Gábor Nemes, Tamás Kruppa, Viktor Kanász, Balázs Rétfalvi and György Sági represented the Frakno Resea…
To discuss the latest research results of the Fraknói Research Group, Vatican Radio hosted Péter Tusor, Tamás Fedeles, Tamás Kruppa, Gábor Nemes and the Research Group's Vatican Research Resident, Katalin Nagy. During the interview, senior research fellow and …