RESEARCH GROUP
The project (ERC CoG 101043451) aims to explore what early modern small states at the borderland between the Ottoman Empire and Christian Europe have in common in their diplomatic strategies, despite their greatly varying characteristics. The legal traditions, forms of rulership, political cultures and languages were inherently different in e.g. the Western Christian city-state Ragusa, the Eastern Orthodox elective principality of Wallachia, and the Muslim hereditary khanate of Crimea. To offer a synthesis, our research group brings together researchers from a wide range of areas, each contributing to the project with insights from their field of expertise. For each member’s research interests, see their personal profile below.

Gábor Kármán
He published widely on the foreign policy of seventeenth-century Transylvania (especially its connections to confessional networks) and the history of the Ottoman tributary states. Find more details here.

Marian Coman
His main research interests include late medieval Wallachia (14th to 16th century), as seen through the lenses of charters, Renaissance cartography of Ottoman Europe, and travel writing in late medieval and Renaissance Europe. A sample of his writings is available here.

Zsuzsanna Cziráki
Her field of research encompasses diplomatic relations between the Principality of Transylvania, the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire in the 16th–17th centuries. For more details on her projects and activities click here.

Tetiana Grygorieva
She has published on diplomatic relations and ceremonial communication between the Ottoman Empire, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Cossack Ukraine as well as about literary discourse in a diplomatic context. More information about her publications can be found here.

Zsuzsanna Hámori Nagy
Her publications focus on the foreign policy of Prince Gábor Bethlen of Transylvania (1613–1629). Her main interest is the diplomatic contacts of Transylvania and France in the early modern era (16th–17th century). Find more details here (in Hungarian).

Magdalena Jakubowska

Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska
Her research interests center around the history of the Crimean Khanate in the early modern period, especially its relations with the Ottoman empire and the Northern Caucasus. Find more details here.

Lovro Kunčević
He has published on the diplomacy, institutions, and ideology of late medieval and early modern Dubrovnik (Ragusa). For more details, click here.

Antal Molnár

Radu G. Păun
He is a specialist of South-East Europe (16th–18th centuries), interested in the theology of power, the devotional practices, and the relations between Christian Europe and the Ottoman world. For more details, click here.

Vedran Stojanović

Ferenc Tóth
His research interests focus on the history of Franco-Hungarian diplomatic and military relations in the 17th and 18th centuries, the history of the war of independence of Francis II Rákóczi, the history of Hungarian soldiers and agents in French service, and the influence of Turkish wars in Europe in the modern era. For the project, he is preparing an edition of early eighteenth-century French consuls’ papers from the Crimea. For more details, see here and here.

Michał Wasiucionek
His research focuses on the place of the Danubian principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia within the broader of diplomatic, cultural, and political networks of seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire and Eastern Europe.

Csaba Göncöl
His field of interests are the history, philology, and Turkic chronicles of the Golden Horde (13th–15th centuries) and its successor-states (primarily the Crimean Khanate, 15th–18th centuries), as well as Hungarian-Habsburg-Ottoman diplomatic relationships (16th–17th centuries). For the project, he is editing Crimean Tatar letters from the Berlin archives. See more details under the link, and his bibliography.

Domagoj Madunić
He has published widely on Early Modern history of Venetian Dalmatia and the Republic of Ragusa, espescially on the topics related to the War for Crete (1645–1669). His main area of interests are: Military History, Ottoman tributary states and Digital humanities. More details can be found here (in Croatian) or here.