Department of Medieval Studies

Head: Professor Zbigniew Dalewski

Dr Antoni Grabowski – Department Secretary
Associate professor Robert Kasperski
Professor Roman Michałowski
Dr Karolina Morawska
Dr Anna Pomierny-Wąsińska
Dr Rafał Rutkowski
Associate professor Anna Zajchowska-Bołtromiuk

Cooperators:
Maja Gąssowska, MA
Dr Rafał Rutkowski
Maksymilian Sas, MA
Dr Marek Stawski
Professor Hanna Zaremska

Doctoral students:
Jan Jelinowski, MA

Research topics

• Historiography and hagiography of the early Middle Ages
  Professor Roman Michałowski, Associate professor Robert Kasperski, Dr Antoni Grabowski
• Models of political power in the early Middle Ages
  Professor Zbigniew Dalewski, Associate professor Robert Kasperski, Dr Antoni Grabowski
• The Church and the religious culture of the Middle Ages
  Professor Roman Michałowski, Associate professor Anna Zajchowska-Bołtromiuk

Current research projects financed by NCN and NPRH

• Realm and National Community in Vincentius Kadłubek’s „Chronicle of the Poles”. Vision and Reception
  NPRH/F/SP/0017/2024/13, 2024–2029
  Principal investigator: Professor Zbigniew Dalewski
  Participating members of the Department: Associate professor Robert Kasperski, Dr Antoni Grabowski, Dr Karolina Morawska, dr Anna Pomierny-Wąsińska, Dr Rafał Rutkowski
• Political relations between Poland and the Holy Roman Empire in the 10th–12th Centuries
  NCN 2021/43/B/HS3/01099
  Principal investigator: Professor Zbigniew Dalewski
• Henry Biterfeld of Brzeg and the Observant Reform of the Dominican Order. Critical edition of the treatise “De formatione et reformatione Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum”
  NCN 2018/31/B/HS3/01196, 2018–2024
  Principal investigator: Associate professor Anna Zajchowska-Bołtromiuk

Other research projects

Epitaphs

Completed research project financed by NCN and NPRH

• Alberic of Trois-Fontaines and the 13th-century Cistercian idea of Europe/Christianitas as a historical and cultural community
  NCN 2016/23/D/HS3/03197, 2017–2020
  Project leader: Dr Antoni Grabowski
• The past in the culture of medieval Poland
  0038/NPRH3/H11/82/2014, 2014–2017
  Project leader: Professor Jacek Banaszkiewicz
  Participating members of the Department: Professor Halina Manikowska, Professor Hanna Zaremska, Professor Zbigniew Dalewski, Professor Roman Michałowski, Dr Antoni Grabowski, Dr Piotr Okniński
• The correspondence of John of Capistrano with Poles in 1451–1456: a Latin–English edition with a commentary
  NCN UMO-2015/18.M/HS3/00091, 2016–2018
  Project leader: Professor Paweł Kras
  Participating members of the Department: Professor Halina Manikowska
• An uneven friendship and it’s perception: The Holy Roman empire and Poland in the eyes of the other’s chroniclers/authors during the Middle Ages
  NCN 2016/21/P/HS3/04017, 2017–2018
  Project leader: Associate professor Grischa Vercamer
• Urban space in late medieval Florence: imaginations and perception
  NCN 2014/15/N/HS3/01768, 2015–2018
  Project leader: Ms Anna Pomierny-Wąsińska

Recent Doctoral Dissertations

• 2020 – Dr Anna Pomierny-Wąsińska, Measured space. Measures and surveyors in medieval Florence (13th–14th c.) (supervision: Professor Halina Manikowska)
• 2018 – Dr Anna Horeczy, Reception of Italian intellectual culture in Krakow academic circles in the second half of the 14th and the first half of the 15th c. (supervision: Professor Halina Manikowska)
• 2018 – Dr Rafał Rutkowski, Theodoricus Monachus’ Chronicle of the Ancient History of the Norwegian Kings. Domestic historical tradition introduced in the mainstream of universal history  (supervision: Professor Jacek Banaszkiewicz).