Project and Grants
APVV-24-0544: Slovenčina v multilingválnom kontexte v ranom novoveku: pramene a digitálne prístupy
Project Title: Slovak in the Multilingual Context of the Early Modern Period: Sources and Digital Approaches
Project Code: APVV-24-0544
Project Duration: 2025–2029
Principal Investigator: Prof. Martin Homza, Dr.
Research Team: Dr. Peter Benka; Dr. Ivana Lukáč Labancová
Project Annotation:
Building on the objectives of two previous projects supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV) between 2017 and 2025, this third consecutive project continues the systematic research that has brought new findings to Slovak historiography and the academic environment, while also expanding its methodological foundations.
In this project, the team will continue publishing editions of primary sources. At the same time, the portfolio will be broadened to include the application of digital methods in research, including the development of digital scholarly editions. The project aims to further explore Slovak within its multilingual early modern context and to integrate innovative digital approaches into historical and philological scholarship.
Project Website: http://slovacika.sk/
VEGA 1/0803/25: Religiozita v kontexte sociálnych a kultúrnych dejín v Uhorsku v stredoeurópskych súvislostiach (1300-1700)
Project Title: Religiosity in the Context of Social and Cultural History in the Kingdom of Hungary within Central European Perspectives (1300–1700)
Project Code: VEGA 1/0803/25
Project Duration: 2025–2028
Principal Investigator: Mgr. Stanislava Kuzmová, MA, PhD.
Research Team: Dr. Peter Benka; Dr. Ivana Lukáč Labancová; Dr. Jakub Palko
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ERASMUS+ Grant: ANTIDOTE
Project Title: ANTIDOTE - Advanced Training in Digitization of Older Texts
Project Code: Erasmus+ KA220-HED-D3AFF6E
Project Duration: 2024 - 2027
Project Leaders for Slovakia: Mgr. Stanislava Kuzmová, MA, PhD., Mgr. Ivana Lukáč Labancová, PhD.
Project Consortium: University of Iceland (coordinating institution, Reykjavík, Iceland), Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic)), Klosterneuburg Abbey Library (Klosterneuburg, Austria), Comenius University (Bratislava, Slovakia), Ca’ Foscari University (Venice, Italy), CNRS (Paris & Lyon, France), and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
Project Annotation: ANTIDOTE is a European network of six universities and one library funded by Erasmus+ (KA220-HED-D3AFF6E). The aim of ANTIDOTE is to offer training in the digitization of older texts, primarily medieval texts, to advanced students and staff wanting to upskill. The training includes a wide range of digital skills and competences that can be applied to medieval texts and manuscripts and transferred to other fields, too. This includes the ability to create, process, link and manage text and image data, as well as to use and design data sets, databases and digital scholarly editions.
Project Website: https://antidote.hi.is/
ACTION AUSTRIA - SLOVAKIA - Winter School of Handwritten Text Recognition of Medieval Manuscripts 2024
Project Title: Winter School of Handwritten Text Recognition of Medieval Manuscripts 2024
Project Code: Action Austria-Slovakia 2024-05-15-002
Project duration: 01.10.2024 – 31.12.2024
Project Leaders for Slovakia: Mgr. Ivana Lukáč Labancová, PhD.
Project Consortium: Comenius University in Bratislava (dr. Peter Benka, dr. Stanislava Kuzmová), Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften vo Viedni (dr. Jan Odstrčilík)
Project Annotation: The aim of the joint Austrian-Slovak Winter school was to make students acquainted with practical aspects of working with medieval and early modern manuscripts and obtain technical skills in dealing with them. This includes using of handwritten text recignition method in their work with manuscripts. The joint Slovak-Austrian Winter School was intended for advanced students of master and doctoral programmes especially from partner universities. The students who specialize in history, archival science, classical philology, literature, and other related fields usually receive basic introduction into working with medieval and early modern manuscripts, often more on a theoretical than on a practical basis. The utilization of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) tools has become an essential skill for professionals working with manuscripts. Consequently, the Winter school of HTR organized by us shows as a suitable alternative to fill this educational gap. Nowadays, the employment of digital tools in cataloguing and making accessible the resources of our libraries and archives, but also the results of scholarly research, become important requirements.
Project Website: https://fphil.uniba.sk/katedry-a-odborne-pracoviska/ksd/veda/projekty-a-granty/zimna-skola-htr-2024/
VISEGRAD FUND - Continuity and Change in Medieval Central Europe
Project Title: Continuity and Change in Medieval Central Europe
Project Code: Visegrad Fund, project no. 22220140.
Project Duration: 2023
Project Leader for Slovakia:: Mgr. Stanislava Kuzmová, MA, PhD.
Project Consortium: Comenius University in Bratislava
Project Annotation: The project contributes to the exchange of ideas and strengthens the professional network of institutions researching medieval Central Europe. In addition, it involves broader audiences, especially students. We will organize an international conference on the theme Continuity and Change in Medieval Central Europe, another in the row of successful biennial conferences initiated by MECERN (Medieval Central Europe Research Network, (http://mecern.eu/). It will be open to scholars from Visegrad countries and beyond, building on the cooperation of academic institutions involved in the MECERN network. The project focuses on the strengthening of the professional network of academic institutions and individual researchers and students dealing with research on medieval Central Europe by organizing a major international conference with related events. After successful conferences in Budapest (2014), Olomouc (2016), Zagreb (2018), and online in Gdansk (2021), the Fifth Biennial Conference of MECERN (http://mecern.eu/) will focus on the vexed relationship between continuity and change in medieval history, especially in Central Europe. Continuity and Change have always been topics that historians, archeologists, art historians, social scientists and scholars from other disciplines were interested in. Recently our society has faced profound changes and disruptions. What was the situation in the Middle Ages? Was Central Europe as a specific historical, cultural, religious and political region shaped by continual developments on the social and political level? Or, was it rather marked by unexpected and radical changes, which were the essential driving forces in the regionʼs historical development? Which medieval changes influenced the development in Central Europe substantially? What were the ruptures in the medieval past? Which phenomena and spheres of life were marked by continuity rather than change? What are the methods that medievalists use to detect and study them? These are the issues that the network of scholars and students will focus on.
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Project Website: https://fphil.uniba.sk/katedry-a-odborne-pracoviska/ksd/veda/konferencie/mecern-2023/
APVV-20-0598: Úloha slovenčiny v Uhorsku v ranom novoveku.
Project Title: The Role of Slovak in the Kingdom of Hungary in the Early Modern Period
Project Code: APVV-20-0598
Project Duration: 2021–2025
Principal Investigator: Prof. Martin Homza, Dr.
Research Team: Dr. Peter Benka; Dr. Ivana Lukáč Labancová; Dr. Stanislava Kuzmová; Dr. Eva Benková; Dr. Vladimír Olejník; Dr. Marianna Koliová; Prof. Pavol Žigo
Project Annotation:
The project Slovak Texts of the Pre-Standardization Period was established at the Department of Slovak History, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University. The team, led by Prof. Martin Homza, brings together specialists in Slovak history, the history and development of the Slovak language, and literary history.
On this interdisciplinary basis, the project investigates the origins and development of Slovak written culture in the early modern period, within the broader context of processes such as the Reformation, Counter-Reformation/recatholicization, as well as centralization and the formation of the modern state.
The main objective of the project is to gradually publish the researched texts not only in book editions, but also through an accessible online database.
Project Website: http://slovacika.sk/
APVV SK-PT-18-0043: Europe in vernacular
Project Title: Europe in the Vernacular: The Rise of Vernacular Languages at the Frontiers of the Latin World in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Contexts and Ideas
Project Code: APVV SK-PT-18-0043
Project Duration: 2019–2021
Principal Investigator: Mgr. Stanislava Kuzmová, MA, PhD.
Research Team: Dr. Peter Benka; Dr. Ivana Lukáč Labancová; Prof. Martin Homza
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VEGA 1/0881/21: Vzory a mechanizmy sociálnej komunikácie v kazateľstve na území dnešného Slovenska od stredoveku do raného novoveku
Project Title: Models and Mechanisms of Social Communication in Preaching in the Territory of Present-Day Slovakia from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period
Project Code: VEGA 1/0881/21
Project Duration: 2021–2023
Principal Investigator: Mgr. Stanislava Kuzmová, MA, PhD.
Research Team: Dr. Peter Benka; Dr. Ivana Lukáč Labancová
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VEGA 1/0796/19 - Uhorské kráľovstvo v listinných prameňoch 60. a 70. rokov 13. storočia s osobitným zreteľom na územie dnešného Slovenska
Project Title: The Kingdom of Hungary in Documentary Sources of the 1260s and 1270s, with Special Emphasis on the Territory of Present-Day Slovakia
Project Code: VEGA 1/0796/19
Project Duration: 2019–2022
Principal Investigator: Prof. PhDr. Ján Lukačka, CSc.
Research Team: Dr. Jakub Palko; Dr. Vladimír Olejník; Dr. Stanislava Kuzmová; Dr. Eva Benková; Prof. Martin Homza
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APVV-16-0374: Slovaciká z bývalého Uhorského kráľovstva na príklade Horného Uhorska (1500 – 1780)“
Project Title: Slovacical documents from the Former Kingdom of Hungary on the Example of Upper Hungary (1500–1780)
Project Code: APVV-16-0374
Project Duration: 2017–2021
Principal Investigator: Prof. Martin Homza, Dr.
Research Team: Dr. Peter Benka; Dr. Stanislava Kuzmová; Prof. Pavol Žigo; Assoc. Prof. Zuzana Kákošová
Project Annotation:
The project Slovak Texts of the Pre-Standardization Period was established at the Department of Slovak History, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University. Led by Prof. Martin Homza, the team brings together specialists in Slovak history, the history and development of the Slovak language, and literary history.
On this interdisciplinary basis, the project examines the origins and development of Slovak written culture in the early modern period, within the broader context of processes such as the Reformation, Counter-Reformation/recatholicization, centralization, and the formation of the modern state. The main objective is the gradual publication of the researched texts not only in book editions, but also through an accessible online database.
The project continues where similar initiatives ended half a century ago, while simultaneously expanding the geographical and chronological scope of research. At the outset, the primary focus became present-day eastern Slovakia (historical Upper Hungary), a region characterized by remarkable diversity: developed urban culture (Košice, Prešov, Bardejov, Levoča, Kežmarok, Gelnica, and others), the presence of important noble families (Thurzo, Rákóczi, Thököly, Horváth-Stančić, Berzevici, Sirmay, and others), the activity of multiple Christian confessions, and the coexistence of several ethnic groups.
These conditions create strong foundations for researching the use of Slovak in various social and cultural contexts. The project was supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under Grant No. APVV-16-0374: “Slovaciká from the Former Kingdom of Hungary on the Example of Upper Hungary (1500–1780).”
Project Website: http://slovacika.sk/