Department of Medieval Studies

Head: Professor Zbigniew Dalewski

Dr Antoni Grabowski – Department Secretary
Associate professor Robert Kasperski
Associate professor Roman Michałowski
Dr Karolina Morawska
Associate professor Anna Zajchowska-Bołtromiuk

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

Doctoral students:
Jan Jelinowski, MA

RESEARCH TOPICS

1. Historiography and hagiography of the early Middle Ages
Professor Roman Michałowski, Professor Robert Kasperski, Dr Antoni Grabowski

2. Models of political power in the early Middle Ages
Professor Zbigniew Dalewski, Professor Robert Kasperski, Dr Antoni Grabowski, Mr Marcin Gostkowski (supervision Professor Zbigniew Dalewski)

3. Medieval cities and urban culture
Professor Halina Manikowska, Dr Piotr Okniński, Ms Anna Pomierny-Wąsińska (supervision Professor Halina Manikowska)

4. The Church and the religious culture of the Middle Ages
Professor Halina Manikowska, Professor Hanna Zaremska, Professor Roman Michałowski

5. The intellectual culture of the late Middle Ages and Italian Humanism
Professor Halina Manikowska, Dr Piotr Okniński, Ms Anna Pomierny-Wąsińska (supervision Professor Halina Manikowska)

6. History of the Jews and Jewish culture in the Middle Ages
Professor Hanna Zaremska

RESEARCH PROJECTS

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: Professor Grischa Vercamer

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

Urban space in late medieval Florence: imaginations and perception
NCN 2014/15/N/HS3/01768, 2015–2018
Project leader: Ms Anna Pomierny-Wąsińska

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS

Mr Marcin Gostkowski, The ascendancy of the house of Embriaco. A study on the history of the Crusader States in Syro-Palestine (supervision: Professor Zbigniew Dalewski)

Ms 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)

Ms Anna Pomierny-Wąsińska, Measured space. Measures and surveyors in medieval Florence (13th–14th c.) (supervision: Professor Halina Manikowska)