Dr. Martin Lesak

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsArt History
Keywordsritual space, stational liturgy, mosaic decorations, S. Maria Maggiore, Late Antique Rome
Honours and awards

2023: Masaryk University Rector's Award for Outstanding Dissertation

2022: Vice-rector's Award for Excellent Results in Doctoral Studies (Masaryk University, Brno)

Current contact address

CountryItaly
CityRome
InstitutionUniversity of Oslo
InstituteThe Norwegian Institute in Rome

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Harald BuchingerFakultät für Katholische Theologie, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2023

Programme(s)

2022Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2025Martin F. Lešák: Festive Rituals at Conques in the 1870s. In: Ivan Foletti, Adrien Palladino Conques Across Time. Viella, 2025. 355–369
2025Lei Huang, Ivan Foletti, Martin F. Lešák In the Valley: The Geographical Context and Origins of the Abbey. In: Ivan Foletti, Adrien Palladino Conques Across Time. Viella, 2025. 87–107
2025Martin F. Lešák, Sabina Rosenbergová: Managing and Ritualizing the Surroundings of the Conques Abbey. In: Ivan Foletti, Adrien Palladino Conques Across Time. Viella, 2025. 123–137
2024Ivan Foletti, Martin F. Lešák: Du désert au Paradis: Conques et son environnement prémoderne. In: Les Cahiers de Saint-Michel de Cuxa, LV, 2024, 5–12
2023Ivan Foletti, Martin F. Lešák Hidden Treasure and Precious Pearl: Sant'Agnese fuori le mura, its Apse Mosaic, and the Experience of Liturgy. From Words to Space: Textual Sources for Reconstructing and Understanding Medieval Sacred Spaces. S. de Blaauw, E. Scirocco, 2023. 75–96
2023Martin F. Lešák: Review of: Urban Developments in Late Antique and Medieval Rome: Revising the Narrative of Renewal, G. Kalas, A. van Dijk eds, Amsterdam 2021. Amsterdam University Press, 342 pp. In: Caa.Reviews, 2023,
2023Martin F. Lešák, Jan Galeta Shaped by Greed: Reflections and Impacts of Environmental Exploitation in European Visual Cultures 1200–1900 (3rd biennial conference His Artibus). In: Bulletin UHS, 35, 2023, 21–23
2023Martin F. Lešák: The "Glorious Traveler": St Foy´s Triumphal March from Rodez to Conques or the Liturgical Afterlife of Two Medieval Reliquaries. In: Convivium, Supplementum (Contextualizing Conques: Imaginaries, Narratives & Geographies, I. Foletti et al. eds), 2023, 42–63