Luka Špoljarić (EN)

Luka Špoljarić is a historian working on the history of the Croatian lands in the Late Middle Ages, with a focus on themes from political, social and intellectual history. He is the head of the Sub-Department for the World History of the Middle Ages and the head of the Doctoral Program of Premodern History. 

Luka graduated in History and Latin Language and Literature at the University of Zagreb’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He has earned his MA (2008) and PhD (2013) in Medieval Studies at the Central European University in Budapest, under the supervision of Niels Gaul. He has held fellowships at the Harvard University (under the supervision of James Hankins), the Warburg Institute in London, and the Villa I Tatti Harvad University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. 

At the Department of History Luka Špoljarić teaches a mandatory course European History of the Middle Ages, as well as several elective courses (on the history of crusading and the crusader states of the Latin East, on the history of the Frankapani and their lands in the Late Middle Ages). He also teaches a mandatory course Introduction to Neo-Latin Literature at the Department of Classical Philology.