Attila Bárány is Professor at the Department of History, at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. He is Principal Investigator of a research group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, “Hungary in medieval Europe” (https://memhung.unideb.hu/). He received his M.A. in Medieval Studies (1995) from CEU Budapest. He gained his PhD in Debrecen in 2001, received his Habilitation at Debrecen University in 2009. He is Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is the leader of the Doctoral Program in History at the Graduate School of History and Ethnography in Debrecen. In 2006-07 he worked as a Lecturer in History, Department of History, National University of Ireland, Galway. He is Editor-in-Chief of Acta Universitatis Debreceniensis – Acta Historica. He taught as a guest lecturer at the universities of Rostock, Wien and Bamberg. His fields of research include Anglo-Hungarian and Imperial relations in the Middle Ages, medieval Hungarian diplomacy, and later medieval military history. He also published on the history of medieval England. He is an author of five monographs (e.g. the latest on Hungarian-Western European relations in the light of the Ottoman conquest in the 1520s). He edited several conference proceedings (more recently, e.g. Das Konzil von Konstanz und Ungarn; The Jagiellonians in Europe; The Image of States, Nations and Religions in Medieval and Early Modern East Central Europe).

Further information: https://unideb.academia.edu/AttilaBarany.