JUAN MANUEL RUBIO AREVALO
DEPARTMENT: Medieval Studies
YEAR OF ENROLLMENT: 2019
COUNTRY: Columbia
Thesis: Crusades and Scripture: The Use of the Bible in Crusader Epic and Preaching
Juan Manuel studied history at Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. He has a master's degree in history from the same university and an MA in medieval studies from CEU. He is currently a PhD candidate in medieval studies at CEU and his research deals with the use of Scripture in the contemporary chronicles of the first to the fifth crusades (1095-1221). His research interests include the history of the crusades, Church history, Biblical Exegesis, literary criticism, and the portrayal of the Middle Ages and religion in popular media, mostly in (but not limited to) video games.
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OLEKSII RUDENKO
DEPARTMENT: HISTORY
YEAR OF ENROLLMENT: 2020
COUNTRY: UKRAINE
Doctoral project: The Classical Tradition and Shaping Myths of Origins in Early Modern East-Central Europe
I have been interested in religion, in particular diverse confessions of Christianity since my childhood, being raised in a devoted Protestant family. My doctoral project at CEU investigates the creation of the early modern 'national' origin myths in Poland, Lithuania and Ruthenia; a process, which was largely conducted by the Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and later also Uniate authors. How could their faith and the interplay between the Biblical and the Greek-Roman tradition shape the early modern myth-construction is one of the most driving elements of my research.
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Barnabás Szabó
DEPARTMENT: HISTORY
YEAR OF ENROLLMENT: 2017
COUNTRY: Hungary
Thesis: Churches Wedding the Union: Comparing 18th-century Scotland and Catalonia