Organised by the Fraknói Research Group, Andreas Rehberg, the distinguished medievalist of the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom (DHI), delivered two lectures at Pázmány Péter Catholic University on 20 November 2025. He first gave a classroom lecture entitled Councils, Emperors, Legates and Cursores. What the Repertorium Germanicum Can Tell the Hungarians – Traces from the Pontificate of Eugene IV (1431–1447), followed by a second presentation, L’ordine di S. Spirito (in Sassia) e l’Ungheria: l’arte di operare in periferia, in which he discussed his most recent research findings.
Rehberg’s visit to Hungary was not without precedent. On 17 October 2022, the latest volumes of the Collectanea Vaticana Hungariae series (I/18, II/8, II/10) were presented at the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom, where Andreas Rehberg introduced the volume by Tamás Fedeles (Ordinationum Documenta Pontificia. Clerical Ordinations at the Roman Curia from the Lands of the Hungarian Holy Crown [1426–1523]). The present event in Budapest was likewise an important chapter in the decades-long scholarly cooperation maintained with various academic institutions in Rome.
The Fraknói Research Group has repeatedly provided Catholic university students with the opportunity to attend lectures by eminent international scholars. In 2016 Roberto Regoli spoke on the First Vatican Council (see here); in 2017 Silvano Giordano lectured on the Council of Trent (here); in 2019 Olivier Poncet addressed Gallicanism and Franco–pontifical relations (here); and in 2021 Rupert Klieber delivered a lecture on the Second Vatican Council (here).
