Aneliya Stoyanova, Ph.D. obtained her Bachelor (2011), Master (2013) and Ph.D. (2020) in History from Sofia University. Her scientific interests lay in the Early Modern history, more specifically in intercultural diplomacy, diplomatic intermediation and ceremony and social networking. The interaction between Christianity and Islam, the relations between the European powers, the Ottoman Empire and Safavid Persia, and the interactions between courts in comparison, are also subjects of her research. Her Ph.D. thesis (Vienna, Madrid and the Habsburg–Ottoman relations, 1555–1606) focuses on the solidarity between the two branches of the Habsburg dynasty in their relations with the Ottomans in the second half of the 16th century. Aneliya Stoyanova was awarded a Richard Plaschka Scholarship (2015–2016) and a Ph.D. Scholarship of the Gerda Henkel Foundation (2018–2019) and has conducted several months of archival research in Austria and Spain. She has presented her work at international conferences in Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the UK.
Publications:
- Stoyanova, A. The Dragomans of the Habsburg Embassy in Constantinople in the Second Half of the 16th Century: The Story of Matthias del Faro. In: History Studies Vol. 18, University of Limerick, 2017, 95–108.
- Stoyanova, A. The Benefits and Limits of Permanent Diplomacy: Two Foreign Attempts to Influence Ottoman-Spanish Relations in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century. In: Diplomatic Culture at the Ottoman Court (c. 1500-1630), Routledge. (forthcoming)
- Stoyanova, A. Wien, Madrid und die habsburgisch-osmanischen Friedensverhandlungen in der zweiten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts, In: Jahrbuch für Mitteleuropäische Studien, Wien: New academic press. (forthcoming)
- Stoyanova, A. Exotic Precious “Magic” – Early Modern Bezoars and the Austrian Habsburg Court in the Second Half of the 16th century, In: M. Maeva, Y. Erolova, P. Stoyanova, M. Hristova, V. Ivanova (eds.), Between the Worlds: Magic, Miracles, and Mysticism. (forthcoming)