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Gábor
Klaniczay 
Permanent Fellow of Collegium Budapest - Institute
for Advanced Study, Professor at the Department of Medieval Studies at
the Central
European University (CEU), Budapest.
Born in 1950. Graduated in History, Medieval Studies, and English Philology
in 1974 at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest. 1976 postgraduate
studies in Paris with Jacques Le Goff (EHESS) and Michel Mollat (Sorbonne).
1983 Dr. Phil. at ELTE. 1984-90 Assistant Professor, 1990-94 Associate
Professor, 1994-97 Head of the Department of Medieval European History,
ELTE. 1990-91 Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. 1991-92 Assistant
Dean for International Relations at ELTE, Faculty of Humanities. 1992
Getty Scholar at the Getty Center for Arts and the Humanities, Santa
Monica. 1994- Full Professor, 1992-97 and 2005-2007 Head of the Department
of Medieval Studies at CEU. 1997-2002 Rector of Collegium Budapest. 2003/2004
Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences,
Stanford.
Principal
Academic Interests
Historical anthropology of medieval and early modern European popular
religion (sainthood, miracle beliefs, healing, magic, witchcraft). Investigations
on medieval dynastic sainthood in Central Europe,on the judicial context
of miracle and maleficium narratives from the canonization trial to the
witch-trial, on medieval and modern visions and apparitions. Comparative
cultural and religious history of Hungary and Central Europe in an all-European
context.
Selection
of Books
- The Uses of Supernatural Power. The Transformations of Popular Religion
in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Polity Press, Cambridge - Princeton
University Press, Princeton, 1990, pp. 259.
- Holy Rulers and Blessed
Princesses. Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2002. pp. 400.
- (ed.), Proces de canonisation
au Moyen Âge. Aspects juridiques et religieux - Medieval Canonization
Processes. Legal and Religious
Aspects. École
française de Rome, Roma, 2004. pp. 392.
- (ed. with Éva Pócs), Communicating
with the Spirits. Demons spirits and witches I. CEU Press, Budapest,
2005. pp. 275.
- (ed. with Éva Pócs), Christian Demonology and Popular
Mythology. Demons, Spirits, Witches II. CEU Press, Budapest, 2006.
pp. 284.
- (ed. with Éva Pócs), Witchcraft Mythologies and Persecutions.
Demons, Spirits, Witches III. CEU Press, Budapest, 2008.
pp. 292.
Full list of publications
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