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Mgr. Veronika Kucharská, PhD.

Veronika Kucharská (1979) is a researcher at the Institute of Art History, Art Research Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. She graduated from the Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University in Bratislava in 2003 with an MA in history and German language and, in 2011, received her PhD in Slovak history. She completed longer-term scholarships in Krakow (Jagiellonian University, Królowej Jadwiga Scholarship Fund, 2005) and Budapest (Europa Institut, 2006 and National Scholarship Programme, 2007 – 2008). Since 2014 she has been the Editor of the journal Ars (since 2023 Scopus-indexed). Her research focuses on the late medieval history of the Kingdom of Hungary (15th – 16th centuries) with an emphasis on the influence of the noble and royal Zapolya family in the Central European context. She has published several scholarly studies and the monograph Ducissa: The Life of Princess Hedwig in the Times of the Jagiellonians, Bratislava 2014. She is currently leading the research project VEGA 2/0019/22 Visual Sources on the History of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 16th Century (2022 - 2025) and is part of the research project team APVV-22-0319 At the Castle and underneath (2023-2027).