Department of Source Criticism and Editing

Head: Professor Adrian Jusupović

Dr Andrzej Buczyło
Dr Jonas Drungilas
Associate professor Aliaksandr Hrusha
Dr Marek Jankowiak
Dr Maksim Makarau
Dr hab. Andrei Matsuk
Dr Wioletta Pawlikowska-Butterwick
Professor Andrzej Rachuba
Dr Arkadiusz Siwko – Sekretary
Dr Ewa Zielińska

Cooperators:
Dr Iwona Dacka-Górzyńska
Dr hab. Marek D. Kowalski
Dr Anna Markiewicz
Dr hab. Aleksandr Musin
Dr Przemysław Nowak
Dr Dominik Szulc

Research topics and projects carried out in the Department of Source Criticism and Editing

Medieval history:

• Prof. Adrian Jusupović, ‘Relations between Poland and Rus from the end of the tenth century to 1194’ – project financed by the base subsidy.
• Associate Prof. Aliaksandr Hrusha, ‘The Rus’ charter in the chancelleries of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania in the late 14th – first third of the 16th century’ – project financed by the base subsidy.
• Dr Marek Jankowiak, ‘Slave Trade, Monetary Circulation and the Formation of States in Central and Northern Europe in the 9th–11th Centuries’ – project financed by the base subsidy.
• Dr Marek Jankowiak, ‘Kreuzpfennige for …? Causes of the influx of German coins into central and northern Europe in the 11th century’  – project financed by the base subsidy.

Early modern period:

• 2020–2025: ‘Parliamentarians of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1566–1794’; the NPRH grant (0130/NPRH8/H11/87/2019), principal investigator: Prof. Andrzej Rachuba, investigator: Associate Prof. Andrei Macuk.
• Prof. Andrzej Rachuba, ‘Lithuanian Metrica. Hearth registers of the Minsk Province from 1667 and 1690’ – project financed by the base subsidy.
• Prof. Andrzej Rachuba, ‘Sejmiks records of the Navahrudek Province, 1566–1648’ – project financed by the base subsidy.
• 2018–2024: ‘Officials of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Registers: Navahrudek Land and Navahrudek Province, the 15th–18th centuries’ – the NPRH grant (11H 18 0370 86), principal investigator: Prof. Andrzej Rachuba, investigators: Associate Prof. Andrei Macuk, Joanna Kunigielis, MA.
• Associate Prof. Andrei Macuk, ‘Military registers of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania counties in 1765’ – project financed by the base subsidy.
• Dr Wioletta Pawlikowska-Butterwick, ‘Roman Catholic clergy in the 16th and 17th centuries in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish Crown and its 19th-century aftermath’ – project financed by the base subsidy.
• Dr Wioletta Pawlikowska-Butterwick, ‘Social history of Lesser Poland and Galicia’ – project financed by the base subsidy.
• Dr Wioletta Pawlikowska-Butterwick, ‘The official document as a historical source’ – project financed by the base subsidy.
• Dr Ewa Zielińska, ‘Correspondence between King Stanisław August and Philippe Mazzei, 1789–1790’ – project financed by the base subsidy.
• Dr Ewa Zielińska, ‘The case of Baron Karl Julius. The Commonwealth towards the Russian-Austrian rapprochement, 1780–1781’ –  project financed by the base subsidy.
• Dr Andrzej Buczyło, ‘Economic and settlement changes in the estates of the starosty of Brest, 1492–1588: A monographic and digital approach’ – project financed by the base subsidy.
• Joanna Kunigielis, MA, ‘Bridges, crossings and bridge tolls on the territory of the Vilnius and Trokai Voivodeships from the second half of the 14th century until the administrative reform of 1565/1566’.

Other projects and research

• ‘History in home schooling and school education’ – grant of the Ministry of Education and Science (project type: Social responsibility of science – Popularisation of science and promotion of sports; ID: 514935); project coordinator/principal investigator: Prof. Adrian Jusupović; investigators: Andrzej Buczyło, PhD, Joanna Kunigielis, MA.
• 2017–2024: ‘History of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the relations between the Jagiellonian State and the East’; the NPRH grant (31H 17 0472 84), principal investigator: Prof. Andrzej Rachuba.
• ‘Palaeography of Cyrillic written sources’ – courses by Prof. Adrian Yusupović and Dr. Aliaksandr Hrusha – project financed by the base subsidy.
• The Open Data Collection for Historical Epidemics and Medieval Diseases – project implemented by the Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO). One of the contributors is Prof. Adrian Jusupović.