The Hospitallers in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary c. 1150–1387

Zsolt Hunyadi was born on 1 September 1970 in eastern Hungary. He studied Hungarian linguistics and literature, philosophy and medieval history at the József Attila University (Szeged, Hungary) from 1991 to 1996. He also earned an MA in Medieval Studies at Central European University (CEU, Budapest) in 1996. He then began to conduct his doctoral studies both at the University of Szeged and at the Medieval Studies Department at CEU. He concluded his studies in the year 2000 and successhdly defended his doctoral dissertation in 2004. Parallel to postgraduate studies he began to teach at the Department of Medieval and Early Modern Hungarian History at the University of Szeged, first as assistant lecturer, later as assistant and adjunct professor. He was tenured in 2009. His main research interests are medieval military-religious orders, the Crusades, the history of pragmatic literacy, and the nobility of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary and in East Central Europe generally. His scholarly activity involves active participation in different scholarly societies, such as the CAPITULUM Research Group for Medieval Church History, serving on the editorial board of the Decreta Regni Medievalis Hungáriáé (DRMH) and as a member of the Committee of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (SSCLE). His scholarly achievements have been promoted or honored by several scholarships and research grants; most notably he conducted some of his research as A. A. Heckman Scholar (1998) in the United States and as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (2006–2007) in Germany. Presently he is an Honorary Research Associate at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at University College London (UK).