I have been long engaged in the research of church Slavic and its forms within the environment of Slovak and Rusyn Greek Catholics. I primarily study ancient Cyrillic manuscripts and prints from the 15th to 19th centuries, which originate from eastern Slovakia and the broader Carpathian area linked to the Byzantine-Slavic tradition. I am interested in how the language, culture, religion, and identity of the people who used these texts are reflected in them.
In my research, I connect linguistics, literary studies, cultural history, and religious studies. I pay special attention to the relationships between the cultural spaces of Slavia Latina and Slavia Byzantina, that is, between the Latin and Byzantine-Slavic traditions in Central and Eastern Europe. I perceive ancient religious texts not only as liturgical monuments but also as unique testimonies of daily life, education, and the cultural memory of past generations.
I have conducted field and archival research in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria, and Serbia. To date, I have managed to document more than 200 Cyrillic manuscripts and old prints used in the eastern Slovak environment. Several of them I have published within the scientific edition Monumenta Byzantino-Slavica et Latina Slovaciae, of which I am a co-founder.
I publish scientific studies and monographs in the fields of Slavic studies, the history of the Slovak language and culture, Slavic literatures, and cultural studies. My goal is to contribute to a better understanding of the cultural and linguistic diversity of Slovakia in the broader Central European and Carpathian context.