The Doctoral Program in Medievistics

The past of the program

As the first program of the doctoral training in historical sciences, the Medievistic PhD program has been operating since 1994 at the Faculty of Humanities of the Szeged University. Its founder was one of the most versatile, outstanding scholar of Hungarian medievalistics in the second half of the 20th century, Gyula Kristó, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His ouvre and heritage had a major impact on the baselines, training directions and research methods of doctoral studies in the Middle Ages. His disciples and close associates have participated in the doctoral training from the beginnings.

Certain characteristic features of this medievistic program can be mentioned: disciplinary complexity and discipline diversity in training. It means, that besides historical sciences in the narrower sense a lot of other sciences have an important role in the training: Byzantine, Oriental, Slavic studies, linguistics, archeology, Church and educational/cultural history and historical auxiliary sciences (first of all diplomatics). The highly qualified internal and external staff with varied professional orientation, with rich research experience is able to maintain the thematic diversity and to represent the variety of scientific approaches, methods.

Due to this fact the competence of the professional team of the medievalistic program covers a wide range of research from the early Middle Ages till the turn of the 15-16th centuries in time, and spatially embraces large areas from Inner Asia, across the Eastern European Steppe to the farthest regions of the Mediterranean and Europe. Besides these specialties the most relevant feature of the medieval research workhop of Szeged and of the medievalist doctoral training is the source-based research; the critical management and analysis of historical sources, concerning either the material or the spiritual heritage of the Middle Ages.

The Medieval Studies Program, which functioned solely in its field for years in Hungary, has retained its openness to receive young scholars, who finished their studies at other universities. During its two decades’ long activity the Medieval Studies Program have received talented students from all Hungarian universities, and its graduates, who in some cases returned to their original institutions, are already successful lecturers at their universities, while others are contributors to teaching at the Medieval Studies Program. Reviewing the list of our graduates it is clear that most of them are highly-evaluated members of the society of scholars of history. The natural community of scholars graduated in Szeged provide an important forum of scholarly discussions on history.

The Medieval Studies Program lays significant emphasis on the possible employment and scholarly management of young scholars at the beginning of their career. By the careful use of our scarce resources and by the support of applications, the program pays close attention to providing young scholars with opportunities to participate in studies and conferences abroad, to publish the results of their research, and to contribute to major research projects. The transparency of scholarly achievement has been served by a 20 year old series of conferences. It predominantly serves as a nationwide means of evaluation for scholarly achievement, which is held biennually and the contributors are present and former PhD students of the program. The text of lectures are monitored by experienced scholars before they are included in our series titled ’Középkortörténeti tanulmányok’ (Studies on Medieval History), in which series so far 10 volumes have been published, and the 11th volume, which will contain the lectures of the conference held in the spring of 2019 is under preparation.

The present of the program

As far as the Mediavistic Program is concerned, a quarter of a century of operation is manifestly long enough for changes in the staff, the regulation system, the external environment and operating conditions to generate fluctuating shockwaves that emerge as upturns and downturns in the historical sequence of periods. It is doubtless that the exceptional and unrecoverable period in the history of mediavistic education 15-20 years ago marked by the names of professors such as Gyula Kristó, Ferenc Makk, László Blazovich, Samu Szádeczky-Kardoss, Terézia Olajos, Imre H. Tóth reached its height at that time. Unfortunately, the premature death of Professor László Koszta has further increased the losses. However, the intellectual legacy of these renowned scholars lives on in the doctoral program; their projects, scientific activities, workshops have numerous followers in Szeged in our days. It is possible to state that the Mediavistic Doctoral Program has its broad foundations at the Faculty of Humanities, Szeged University at present. All these are expressed in the wealth of well-managed research avenues, areas of expertise, lists of available research topics, including, without aiming to give an exhaustive list: the classic Hungarian and universal mediavistic science in a wide variety of sectoral dimensions; archeology during the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin and in the Middle Ages; the early history of Hungary and the steppe, Byzantiology, Turkology, Middle-Latin philology, diplomatics, Hungarian church history, medieval local, urban and institutional history. Regarding the organizational structure of the doctoral program, the on-going cooperation of the four departments of the Historical Institute (Department of Medieval and Early Modern Hungarian History, Department of Medieval Universal History, Department of Archeology, Department of Historical Auxiliary Sciences) facilitates the operation of the education program and occasionally acts as an instrument to mobilize further collaborative organizational bodies, such as the Department of Altisistics, Academic and OTKA (National Scientific Research Basic Programs) research groups. The departments and research teams in the doctoral program provide a hub for the highly qualified workforce whose qualification rate reaches 100%. Several of these co-workers have obtained their scientific degrees in this doctoral program. Therefore they are strongly committed to maintaining the effective operation of the program and the cooperation. It is easy to find suitable and qualified experts to give diploma courses or work as consultants. Due to professional projects implemented by academic governance/partnership and more active participation of external competent bodies, the doctoral program will surely have the support of qualified external staff that involves the researchers of mediavistic studies, employed mostly by archives and museums in the region. Many of them regularly participate in the implementation of tasks related to the operation of the program. Their good relation with their institutions is highly essential for PhD holders and doctoral candidates regarding their professional career and perspectives.

The possibility to get involved in real-life scientific undertakings, start-ups, research projects, professional tasks exists for the students of the Mediavistic Doctoral Program. On the other hand, these scientific activities in the institute regard the doctoral program as a workshop to provide professional workforce supply and expect the most talented doctoral candidates to engage in the implementation of the professional tasks. Regarding the fact that several significant professional projects, research tasks and series of publications are linked to the departments and senior tutors responsible for the maintenance of the doctoral program, the possibilities of doctoral students of the very highest calibre comprise the completion of their doctoral studies as a product of a nationally or internationally well-renowned professional company and the publication of their related research papers. In this context, the following are to be mentioned as real-life research projects or series of publications: Anjou-kori Oklevéltár (Diplomatics from the Anjou-era), Magyar Őstörténeti Könyvtár (Hungarian Prehistory Library) Szegedi Középkortörténeti Könyvtár (Mediavistic Historical Library) and Capitulum the Dolgozatok. When, concerning the series mentioned above, some former students of the doctoral program publish their professional findings, the papers reflect the success of expert-supply in Szeged, the transparency of work in the doctoral program and enable the candidates to achieve top scientific performance. Last but not least, their professional outcomes represent the motivation inherent in the doctoral school that is the driver of publication activity through well-established media.

The training program of the doctoral school can be of interest primarily for MSc students and graduates, but its doors are occasionally open for students of other related areas of science (classical philology, Altisistics, cultural heritage, etc.). The competition (entrance exam) has three parts. The applicants are expected to give a presentation of one of their earlier scientific results (scientific work) – their theses, Scientific Student Circle research work, edited professional publication – and to describe their ideas, research plans related to their doctoral research (starting-point, problematics, issues for scientific discussion, research methodology to be followed, expected and foreseeable results, the significance of the topic) and finally, they have to demonstrate their comprehension of a short – typically Latin source text.

During the last 25 years has been passed since the starting of the systematic training of the doctoral school, the education was based on six training systems. Initially, the curriculum was credit-free. In the early 2000s, it was replaced by a workable credit system for over a decade. In the early 2010s, two essential circumstances led to the development of new training programs. On the one hand, the number of doctoral students with a basic qualification in archaeology started to increase, as a result of which the program expanded the courses of archaeological knowledge content by organising a separate educational path for those who had an archaeological qualification. In 2016, as a result of the nationwide reorganisation of the structure of doctoral training, i.e. the establishment of a 2 + 2 years training program, the Program of Medieval History renewed its curriculum in both Hungarian and English according to the requirements of the new curriculum. Accordingly, our training today is for 2 + 2 years, with the first half of the classroom training, while the second phase is initially intended for the dissertation. The broad range of courses has maintained the duality for both historians and archaeologists to find such courses which were well-suited to their pre-qualification and to assist with all of them in their research and doctoral dissertation. The training aims to provide the broadest range of professional assistance available for writing a doctoral thesis, as well as to adequately prepare the applicants for the doctoral degree. Furthermore, an emphasised effort of the program is to assist the education of the new generation of scholars by the transfer of a diverse, thorough and profound professional knowledge, besides, making an extensive national and international network available.

In the doctoral program, following the regulations of the university, faculty and the Doctoral School of History, it is still possible to earn a degree as an individual. Initially, many applied to defend their theses in this way, but nowadays, such degrees have become scarce. Those who have prepared their dissertations individually were basically from a university background, from a group of colleagues working on medieval research. In some cases, colleagues from other research institutes applied for the program. It can still be said that the opportunity for individual preparation is primarily provided to colleagues who have been working in the profession for several years and who have already proved to have a significant scientific and publishing activity, and who are unable to apply for full-time education as a result of their work in universities, museums or other research institutes. They can prove their abilities to obtain a degree with the results of their professional practice. On the recommendation of the program manager, the program board and the council of the Doctoral School of History decide on the acquisition of special preparation status. These individuals are exempted from completing the first two years of the training, and the path to the degree is opened to them by taking the complex exam immediately upon application. They must also complete the second two-year phase of their dissertation from their doctoral training. All other terms and conditions of the individually prepared students are precisely in line with the rules for obtaining a PhD (Additional rules for individually prepared students can be found under the link “Felvételi Információk [Application Information]”.)

During the 25 years of the Medieval Studies Doctoral Program, while its operating environment, framework, curriculum, funding, staffing, attractiveness and perspectives have been continually changing and regularly modifying, it has consistently insisted, to the high standards of defended dissertations. If someone looks through the list of theses deserving PhD degree, one can see that the dissertations in this program were written about important topics, and the vast majority of them enrich the field of science with widely used and expected enduring results. There are quite a few medievalists educated and graduated in our school, who nowadays are considered well-known and highly quoted researchers. Although it is unfair to heighten names subjectively, to prove and testify the previous statement one should mention a couple of names: Gábor Thoroczkay, Ferenc Piti, Boglárka Weisz, Gergely Kiss, Tamás Fedeles, Tamás Nótári, Attila Türk and Tibor Szőcs. It is related to the high-quality demand that leading researchers, academics, professors and occasionally eminent foreign scientists are involved in the work of the defence committees from the beginning, without any reservations. The program sees an appropriate confirmation of the high expectation of quality in the previous accreditation process in 2014, which states that theses defended in our program are of outstanding quality. These achievements, and the respectable and appreciated efforts of those scholars previously engaged in the program oblige educators and researchers currently working in the field of medieval studies to continue insisting on the high quality of dissertations submitted to the Medieval Studies Program.

The training plan of the program

Lecturers of the program

Dr. Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky – regular
Dr. Tibor Almási – regular
Dr. Csanád Bálint – previously, occasionally, optionally
Dr. Péter Bara – regular
Prof. Dr. László Blazovich – previously, occasionally, optionally
Dr. Norbert C. Tóth – previously, occasionally, optionally
Dr. Sándor Csernus – regular
Dr. Terézia Dér – previously, occasionally, optionally
Dr. György Galamb – regular
Dr. László Gálffy – regular
Dr. Emőke Horváth – optionally
Dr. Zsolt Hunyadi – regular
Prof. Dr. Mária Ivanics – previously, occasionally, optionally
Dr. Zoltán Kordé – regular
Dr. Szilvia Kovács – regular
Dr. Tamás Kőfalvi – optionally
Dr. István Mészáros – optionally
Dr. Tibor Neumann – optionally
Dr. Tamás Nótári – optionally
Dr. István Petrovics – previously, occasionally, optionally
Dr. Ferenc Piti – optionally
Dr. Szabolcs Polgár – regular
Dr. Krisztina Rábai – regular
Dr. Ferenc Sebők – regular
Dr. György Szabados – previously, occasionally, optionally
Dr. Richárd Szántó – regular
Dr. Ágnes T. Horváth – regular
Prof. Dr. Sándor László Tóth – regular
Dr. István Tringli – optionally
Dr. Zoltán Várady – previously, occasionally, optionally
Dr. Boglárka Weisz – previously, occasionally, optionally
Prof. Dr. István Zimonyi – regular
Dr. Attila Zsoldos – optionally

The supervisors of the program

Dr. Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky – active
Dr. Tibor Almási – have a student with a degree in the program, active
Dr. Csanád Bálint – have a student with a degree in the program, optionally
Dr. Norbert C. Tóth – have a student with a degree in the program, optionally
Dr. Sándor Csernus – have a student with a degree in the program, optionally
Dr. György Galamb – have a student with a degree in the program, active
Dr. László Gálffy – active
Dr. Zsolt Hunyadi – active
Dr. Zoltán Kordé – active
Dr. Szilvia Kovács – active
Dr. István Petrovics – have a student with a degree in the program, active
Dr. Ferenc Piti – active
Dr. Szabolcs Polgár – active
Prof. Dr. László Révész – have a student with a degree in the program, active
Dr. Ferenc Sebők – active
Dr. György Szabados – have a student with a degree in the program, optionally
Dr. Ágnes T. Horváth – active
Prof. Dr. Sándor László Tóth – have a student with a degree in the program, active
Dr. Boglárka Weisz – have a student with a degree in the program, optionally
Prof. Dr. István Zimonyi – have a student with a degree in the program, active
Dr. Attila Zsoldos – have a student with a degree in the program, optionally

Program topic writers/leaders with optional topics

Dr. Tibor Almási
The era of the mixed-house kings
Raguza (Dubrovnik) and the Kingdom of Hungary
Diplomatics from the Anjou-era

Dr. Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky
Sinology, Mongol studies

Dr. Norbert C. Tóth
Late medieval hungarian history

Dr. Sándor Csernus
The history of Western Europe in the early Middle Ages

Dr. László Gálffy
The history of Western Europe in the mature and late Middle Ages

Dr. György Galamb
Religious movements and heresies in Western and Central Europe in the Middle Ages

Dr. Zsolt Hunyadi
The history of medieval Hungary

Dr. Zoltán Kordé
Hungarian social history in the Middle Ages
The history of Hungary in the 15th century

Dr. Szilvia Kovács
The Cumanians, the Golden Horde
The Eastern European steppe in the 10–15th centuries

Dr. István Petrovics
The researche of the cities in the Middle Ages

Dr. Ferenc Piti
Hungarian history of the Anjou-era
Diplomatics from the Anjou-era

Dr. Szabolcs Polgár
History of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages

Dr. Ferenc Sebők
Late medieval hungarian history

Dr. György Szabados
Parallels and contradictions inmilitary history in the periphery of Europe in the 9–13th centuries

Dr. Richárd Szántó
The medieval history of Western Europe

Prof. Dr. Sándor László Tóth
The questions of hungarian prehistory

Dr. Boglárka Weisz
Medieval hungarian economic history

Prof. Dr. István Zimonyi
Early-Hungarian History
The medieval history of the Eurasian steppe; the nomadic peoples of the steppe of Eastern Europe
Turkology

List of those who have already earned their degree in the program

Tibor Almási
Collection of Documents of the Angevin Period XI. (1327)
Prof. Dr. Ferenc Makk
1995
Individual trainee

László Koszta
The Activity of the Pécs Cathedral Chapter as a Place of Authentication until 1353
No supervisor
1996
Individual trainee

Toru Senga
Studies on the Background of Early Eastern Relations of the Hungarians
No supervisor
1996

Individual trainee

Sándor Csernus
Hungary and Medieval Historiography in French
No supervisor
1997
Individual trainee

Erzsébet Galántai
Humanist Historians of Hungary
No supervisor
1999
Individual trainee

Ferenc Piti
Collection of Documents of the Angevin Period XXIV. (1340)
No supervisor
2001
State scholarship holder

Tamás Kőfalvi
The Collection of the Place of Authentication Documents of the Pécsvárad Convent, 1254-1526
Dr. Tibor Almási
2001
Individual trainee

Imre Orbán
„Ecce, iam vici mundum!”-Veneration of Saint Margaret of Antioch in Hungary
No supervisor
2002
Individual trainee

Richárd Szántó
Land Structure, Society and Political Institutions of Derbyshire at the End of the 14 th Century and in the First Half of the 15 th Century
Dr. Pál Engel
2002
State scholarship holder

Lajos Géczi
Collection of Documents of the Angevin Period IX. (1325)
No supervisor
2002
Individual trainee

György Szabados
On the Beginnings of Hungarian History
Prof. Dr. Ferenc Makk
2003
State scholarship holder

Gergely Kiss
The Canon Law Status of Benedictine Monasteries of Royal Foundation in the 11 th –13 th Century
No supervisor
2003
State scholarship holder

Gábor Thoroczkay
Religious Historical and Source Studies from 11 th -century Hungarian History
No supervisor
2004
Tuition fee student, then state scholarship holder

Péter Kis
The Organisation of Royal Castle Folk in the 13 th –14 th Century
No supervisor
2004
Individual trainee

Zsolt Hunyadi
Hospitallers in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary, c.1150-1387
Naturalisation: December 17, 2004
Original defence: Central European University, June 14, 2004;
Original supervisor: Dr. József Laszlovszky

László Gálffy
Angers in the 13th Century. Urban Development, Economic and Social Structures
Prof. Dr. Gyula Kristó – Prof. Dr. Noel-Yves Tonnerre [co-supervision]
2005
State scholarship holder

Mihály Dobrovits
The Withered Empire of Celestial Khagans. The Turkic People and the History of the Turkic Empires (439-745)
Dr. István Zimonyi
2005
Individual trainee

Terézia Dér
The Figures of Saint Stephen and Saint Ladislaus in Latin liturgical songs in Hungary
No supervisor
2005
Individual trainee

Tamás Fedeles
The Composition of People at the Cathedral Chapter of Pécs in the Late Middle Ages (1354-1526)
Prof. Dr. Márta Font
2005
State scholarship holder

István Petrovics
Studies in Urban History. Chapters on the Medieval History of Szeged, Temesvár, and Pécs
No supervisor
2005
Individual trainee

Ferenc Sebők
Collection of Documents of the Angevin Period XXV. (1341)
No supervisor
2005
Individual trainee

Tamás Nótári
Chapters on the Early Medieval History of Bavaria in Light of the Historical Sources from Salzburg (8 th –9 th Century)
No supervisor
2006
State scholarship holder, then tuition fee student

Boglárka Weisz
Customs Duties and Collection of Toll in Hungary in the Age of the Árpáds
† Prof. Dr. Gyula Kristó – Dr. Attila Zsoldos
2006
Individual trainee

Ildikó Éva Tóth
Collection of Documents of the Angevin Period XV. (1331)
Prof. Dr. Gyula Kristó
2006
State scholarship holder

Szabolcs Polgár
Eastern Europe in International Trade in the 8 th –10 th Century
Prof. Dr. István Zimonyi
2006
State scholarship holder

Szabolcs Marton
The History of Alcoholic Drinks in Medieval Hungary (koumiss, beer, pálinka)
Dr. Tibor Almási
2007
State scholarship holder

Attila Türk
Hungarian Prehistory and the Archaeological Cultures of Saltovo
Dr. Csanád Bálint
2011
State scholarship holder

Gábor Horváth
Gergely Gyöngyösi OSPPE (1472-1531) and the Pauline Fathers in the 16 th Century: history and worship
Naturalisation: December, 2011
Original defence: Roma, Pontificia Universitâ, Gregoriana. Facoltà della Storia dei Beni
Culturali della Chiesa. Academic year 2009/2010
Original supervisor: Mezzadri, Luigi, P., C. M.

Éva Révész
Archaeological and Historical Data to the Byzantine-Bulgarian-Hungarian Ecclesiastical Relations in the Early Árpád Age
Prof. Dr. Ferenc Makk – Prof. Dr. Terézia Olajos
2012
State scholarship holder

Szilvia Kovács
The History of the Kuns until the Mongol Conquest
Prof. Dr. Mária Ivanics – Prof. Dr. István Zimonyi
2013
State scholarship holder

Levente Igaz
Belligerent States in the Iberian Peninsula and in the Carpathian Basin in the 9 th –13 th Century.
Comparable Elements of Two Ways of European Military History in the Middle Ages
Dr. György Szabados
2013
State scholarship holder

Krisztina Rábai
Collection of Documents of the Angevin Period XL. (1356)
Dr. Tibor Almási
2013
State scholarship holder

Tibor Szőcs
The History of the Institution of the Palatine in the Árpád Age and the First Half of the Angevin Period (1000-1342)
Dr. István Petrovics
2013
State scholarship holder

Miklós Halmágyi
Questions of Self-Identity and Perceptions of Outlanders on the Basis of Select Authors of the Age of the First Millenium
Prof. Dr. László Koszta
2013
State scholarship holder

Éva Teiszler
Collection of Documents of the Angevin Period XXXIV. (1350)
Dr. Tibor Almási
2014
State scholarship holder

Dr. Pál Szabó
1440 – The First Ottoman-Turkish Siege of Nándorfehérvár and Its Antecedents
Prof. Dr. Terézia Olajos – Dr. Ferenc Sebők
2014
State scholarship holder

Attila Kiss P.
„ut strenui viri”. The History of the Gepids in the Carpathian Basin
Prof. Dr. Terézia Olajos
2015
State scholarship holder

Katalin Nagy Pintérné
The Weaponry and Tactics of the Huns and Avars on the Basis of Written Sources
Prof. Dr. Terézia Olajos – Prof. Dr. István Zimonyi
2015
State scholarship holder

Péter I. Tóth
The Composition of People at the Cathedral Chapter of Csanád in the Late Middle Ages (1354-1526)
Dr. István Petrovics
2015
Tuition fee student

Dr. Károly Vekov
Institutia loculior de adeverire in Europa Centralí cu speciala privire la locul de adeverire din Alba Iulia [The Institution of Places of Authentication in Central Europe, with a particular regard to the Place of Authentication of Gyulafehérvár]
Naturalisation: June, 2015
Original defence: Bukarest, Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, May 14, 1999
Original supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lajos Demény

Márton Vér
The Postal System of the Mongol Empire in North-Eastern Turkestan
Prof. Dr. István Zimonyi
2016
State scholarship holder

Ágnes Maléth
The Relationship of Charles I and the Papacy (1301–1342)
Dr. Sándor Csernus
2017
State scholarship holder

Beáta Vida
The History of the Order of Carthusians in the Territory of the Kingdom of Hungary in the Middle Ages
† Prof. Dr. László Koszta – Dr. Norbert C. Tóth
2017
State scholarship holder

Melinda Takács
An Early Medieval Settlement in the Nyírség. Details on the Early Medieval Settlement History of the Upper Tisza Region
László Révész – György Szabados
2018
State scholarship holder

Tamás Kovács
Restitutio imperii – The Role of the Anicius Family in Legitimising Endeavours of One-and-a-Half Century
György Galamb
2019
State scholarship holder

Péter Tamás Bara
Leo of Chalcedon. The Network, Paideia, and Miracles of an Early Komnenian Metropolitan
† Prof. Dr. Terézia Olajos – Dr. Niels H. Gaul
State scholarship holder
2020

Viktória Kovács
Tolls and Toll Collection in the Medieval Hungarian Kingdom during the Reign of King Louis I (1342–1382)
Dr. Boglárka Weisz
State scholarship holder
2020

Péter Juhász
From the Sea of the Steppe to the Island of the Carpathians. Could the Turkish tribal associations in the Steppes have a role in the Hungarian ethnogenesis?
Prof. Dr. Sándor László Tóth
Tuition fee student
2020

Zoltán Szegvári
The Image of the Latins in Late Byzantine Epistolography
† Prof. Dr. Terézia Olajos – Dr. Tibor Almási
State scholarship holder
2020

Mutlu, Kahraman
State formation and the social structure of the Türk Khaganate / A Türk Kaganátus államrendje és társadalmi szerkezete
Prof. Dr. István Zimonyi
2021

Zoltán Szolnoki
Role of vendetta in narrative sources Idology of politics/society and family strategy in Tuscany between 1289 and 1424
2021
Dr. György Galamb

Gyöngyvér Kiss-Bíró
Outline of the 11th–15th century settlement history of North-West Jászság
2021
Liptovszkyné Dr. habil. Mária Wolf

Mihály Kurecskó
The heraldy of the Hungarian Royal double seals 1526-1848
2022

Meirambek Zhumangalivev 
Cumans in the Medieval Hungarian Kingdom

2023

Students of the organized training earning absolutorium

Katalin Szántai (1997)

Richárd Szántó Richárd (1997) – earned a degree (2002)
László Gálffy (1998) – earned a degree (2005)
Zsolt Giczi (1998) – earned a degree in other program (2010, ELTE)
Andrea Horváth (1998)
Tamás Kőfalvi (1998) – earned a degree (2001)
Edit Koló-Szujó (1998)
Ferenc Piti (1998) – earned a degree (2001)
György Szabados (1998) – earned a degree (2003)
Gábor Thoroczkay (1998) – earned a degree (2005)
Gergely Kiss (1998) – earned a degree (2003)
János Bartkó (1999)
Zsolt Hunyadi (1999) – earned a degree (2004)
Sarolta Homonnai (1999)
Szabolcs Polgár (1999) – earned a degree (2006)
Balázs Stossek (1999)
Mihály Kurecskó (1999)
Ildikó Éva Tóth (2000) – earned a degree (2006)
Ágnes Nyulassy (2001)
László Balogh (2002)
Márton Parlagi (2002)
József Szarka (2002)
Tamás Vajda (2002)
Róbert Varga Tibor (2002)
Boglárka Weisz (2002)
Tamás Fedeles (2003) – earned a degree (2005)
Tamás Nótári (2003) – earned a degree (2006)
Ottó Vázsonyi (2003)
Gábor Szeberényi (2004)
Anna Sztanek (2004)
Szilvia Kovács (2005) – earned a degree (2013)
Szabolcs Marton (2005) – earned a degree (2007)
Éva Teiszler (2005) – earned a degree (2014)
Attila Türk (2005) – earned a degree (2011)
Éva Győri (2006)
Csilla Horváth (2006)
Éva Révész (2006) – earned a degree (2012)
Zoltán Horogszegi (2007)
Krisztina Rábai (2007) – earned a degree (2013)
Miklós Szvitek (2007)
Beáta Kulcsár (2008)
Katalin Nagy (2008) – earned a degree (2015)
Miklós Halmágyi (2008) – earned a degree (2013)
Ágnes Juhász (2009)
Zsuzsanna Tamási-Tóth (2009)
Ottó Fogas (2010)
Róbert Papp (2010)
Péter G. Tóth (2010) – earned a degree (2015)
Levente Igaz (2010) – earned a degree (2013)
Pál Szabó, Dr.(2010) – earned a degree (2014)
Tibor Szőcs (2010) – earned a degree (2013)
Attila Kiss P. (2011) – earned a degree (2015)
Zsuzsanna Kopeczny (2012)
Annamária Bartha (2013)
Anita Kruták (2013)
Márta Tóber (2013) – passed the final exam (2016)
Beáta Vida (2013) – earned a degree (2017)
Ágnes Maléth (2014) – earned a degree (2017)
Márton Vér (2014) – earned a degree (2016)
Adrián Berta (2015)
Sándor Gyarmati (2015)
Tamás Kovács (2015) – earned a degree (2019)
Melinda Takács (2015) – earned a degree (2018)
Péter Bara (2016) – earned a degree (2020)
Gyöngyvér Bíró (2016) – earned a degree (2021)
Attila Katona-Kiss (2016)
Zsuzsanna Kocsisné Varga (2016)
Attila Kovács (2016)
Viktória Kovács (2016) – earned a degree (2020)
Tamás Pálinkó (2016)
Péter Juhász (2017) – earned a degree (2020)
Zsolt Dezső Nagy (2017)
Brigitta Szanka (2017)
Zoltán Szolnoki (2017) – earned a degree (2021)
Mutlu, Kahraman (2017) – earned a degree (2021)
Zsolt Gallina (2018, Medieval Studies Archeology)
Nikoletta Lukács (2018, Medieval Studies Archeology)
Sándor Varga (2018, Medieval Studies Archeology)
Gábor Wilhelm (2018, Medieval Studies Archeology)
Zoltán Szegvári (2018) – earned a degree (2020)
Máté Kiss (2020)
Balázs Mellár (2020) – Medieval Studies Archeology
Rita Soós (2020) – Medieval Studies Archeology
Máté Kiss (2020) – home defence (2020)

Tamás Csifó (2022)

Márta Gulyás (2022)

Bálint Kerényi (2022)

Rita Rácz (2022) – Medieval Studies Archeology

Sándor Szmutkó (2022)

Students of the organized training passing the final exam

Márta Tóber (2016)

Student passing the complex exam

Máté Kiss (2018)
Balázs Mellár (2018, Medieval Studies Archeology)
Orsolya Mészáros (2018, Medieval Studies Archeology)
Rita Soós (2018, Medieval Studies Archeology)
László Bognár (2019)
Meirambek, Zhumangaliyev (2019)
Şimşek, Cihan (2019)
Zsolt Petkes (2019, Medieval Studies Archeology)
István Törőcsik (2019, Medieval Studies Archeology)
Sándor Szmutkó (2019) (cross semester training)
Tamás Csifó (2020)
Márta Gulyás (2020)
Bálint Kerényi (2020)
Nenad Obradovic (2021)
Hircin Zeki Can (2021)
Talgatbek Manash Oiratuly (2021)
Kalics Dánielné Lilla Alida Dr. Kristóf (2021)

Zita Hrabák (2022)

Martin Borsódi (2022)

József Rafael Gudmann (2022)

Balázs Danka (2022)

Gürer Ilker (2022)

Kristóf Hergott (2022)

Anna Botyánszki (2022)

Andrea Szombathelyi (2022)

The active students taking part in the training of the program

Grade 1

Ertunç Gençay

Supervisor: Dr. habil. Szilvia Kovács

Pechenegs in the Hungarian Kingdom

Grade 2

Ernő Kelemen

Supervisor: Dr. habil László Gálffy

Definitions and interpretation possibilities of territoriality, border and border societies in medieval Europe

Márk Ádám

Supervisor: Dr. habil. Mária Wolf

Examination of ceramics form Szolnok and its mikro-region (15th–17th centuries)

Grade 3

Nikoletta Martus
Supervisor: Dr. Richárd Szántó
Viticulture and wine-growing in the Anjuo-era in Hungary

Enikő Gephárt
Supervisor: Dr. habil. Zsolt Hunyadi
Marriage habits and marriage strategies in medieval England

Grade 4

Balázs Danka – State scholarship holder
Supervisor: Dr. György Galamb
Religious movements and heresies in medieval Western and Central Europe

József Rafael Gudmann – State scholarship holder
Supervisors: Dr. György Galamb– Dr. Ferenc Sebők
Structural analysis of the conflict system of the Italian wars

Ilker, Gürer – Türkish, SH PhD-Scholarship
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. István Zimonyi
The Hungarian Tatar invasion

Kristóf Hergott – (Medieval Studies Archeology)
Martin Borsódi – (Medieval Studies Archeology)
Andrea Illés-Muszka – (Medieval Studies Archeology)
Zita Hrabák – (Medieval Studies Archeology)

Anna Botyánszki – (Medieval Studies Archeology)

Andrea Szombathelyi – (Medieval Studies Archeology)

Obradovic, Nenad – State scholarship holder
Supervisor: Dr. Tibor Almási

Relations of serbian despots with the Kingdom of Hungary in the 15th century

Hircin Zeki Can – Türkish, SH PhD-Scholarship
Supervisor: Dr. Zsolt Hunyadi
Order of knighthoods’s role in the Crusades (Canon low, military history)

Talgatbek Manash Oiratuly – Kazak, SH PhD-Scholarship
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. István Zimonyi
Cuman image of Russian sources and historiography

Zsófia Sztankovánszkiné Osváth – (Medieval Studies Archeology)
Máté Mátyás Varga – (Medieval Studies Archeology)
Dorottya Walter– (Medieval Studies Archeology)
Krisztián Zandler– (Medieval Studies Archeology)

Kalics Dánielné Lilla Alida Dr. Kristóf– Individual training