Norbert Hunor Orbán

Studied History at the university of Vienna; from 2018-2022 Master programme Historical Research, Auxiliary Sciences of History and Archival Studies at the University of Vienna; Master Thesis: Damit nicht das in des Vergessens Dunkel fällt, was im Licht hätte bleiben sollen.“ Der Paulinerorden in Österreich und das höfische Stiftungsverhalten im Zeitalter der Reformkonzilien des 15. Jahrhunderts, supervised by PD Mag. Dr. Andreas Zajic, MAS; co-supervised by Dr. Judit Majorossy, MA; since 2022 Prae-Doc-Assistant in the ERC Starting Grant Project “ARITHMETIC” at Institute for Medieval Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW/IMAFO) supervised by MMag. Dr. Michaela Wiesinger; since 2022 doctoral student at the University of Vienna; Doctoral thesis: Heiden – Dämonen – Kannibalen – Blutschänder? – Die Kumanen in der Darstellung chronikalischer und annalistischer Textzeugen des 13.–15. Jahrhunderts in Ost-Mitteleuropa (Arbeitstitel), supervised by PD Mag. Dr. Andreas Zajic, MAS

Research interests: History of the Middle Ages in East Central Europe, Historical Auxiliary Sciences, Late Medieval Equestrian Nomads in East Central Europe; Mendicant and Hermit Orders in Austria and Hungary.

Current research projects:
Arithmetic – German Arithmetical Treatises in manuscripts of the Late Middle Ages (1400-1522). A study on philology, history and culture based on a digital edition of the treatises (https://www.oeaw.ac.at/imafo/forschung/historische-identitaetsforschung/projekte/arithmetic)

Doctoral Thesis: The focus of the planned dissertation lies in the analysis and interpretation of the historiography of East Central Europe and its engagement with the Cumans between the 13th and 15th centuries.

Publications:

Der ungarische Paulinerorden im Spiegel der Klosterreformambitionen Herzog Albrechts V. In: Martin Haltrich/Christina Jackel (Hg.), Fokus Kloster. Lebens- und Wissensraum geistlicher Gemeinschaften, Wien 2024, S. 27-45 [in print].
with Michaela Wiesinger, Christina Jackel, Handwritten Arithmetic Treatises in German (1400-1550). A First Assessment of the Sources Based on the Exemplary Corpus Held by the Austrian National Library. In: Medieval Worlds 18 (2023), S. 72-103.
Die Annalen des Paulinerklosters Unterranna im Codex XI. 533 der Stiftsbibliothek St. Florian. In: Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Band 130/2, Wien 2022, S. 120-131.