University Speeches at Prague, Leipzig, and Krakow (PRAISE)

This ongoing research, conducted within the PRAISE project, uncovers new intellectual connections between the Faculties of Arts of Prague, Kraków, and Leipzig through a systematic analysis of university speeches and academic oratory. By examining their doctrinal content, it reveals previously overlooked networks of transmission and exchange across the universities of late medieval Central Europe. 

Key publications:
Early Humanism on the Eve of the Bohemian Reformation? Ovid, Petrarch, and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics in the Recommendation Speeches at Prague University, 1393–1410