Department of Early Modern History
Head: Professor Wojciech Kriegseisen
Dr Maria Cieśla
Dr Dorota Dukwicz
Dr Anna Horeczy
Dr Monika Jusupović
Dr Anna Kalinowska
Professor Dariusz Kołodziejczyk (unpaid leave until 12.07.2023)
Dr Marta Kuc-Czerep – Department Secretary
Dr Anna Maria Laskowska
Professor Edward Opaliński
Dr Olha Tikhonova
Dr Jan Waszink
Professor Tomasz Wiślicz-Iwańczyk
Cooperators:
Professor Henryk Wisner
Dr Rozalia Kosińska
Jekaterina Merkuljeva, MA
Przemysław P. Romaniuk, MA
Dr Piotr Skowroński
Amadeusz Szklarz-Habrowski, MA
Andrii Zhyvachivskyi, MA
Doctoral students:
Carolina Ferraro, MA
Grzegorz Kietliński, MA
Zofia Żółtek, MA
RESEARCH TOPICS AND PROJECTS
1. Political history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (16th–18th c.)
Attitudes of political elites in 16th–18th c.:
– The higher clergy in 16th–17th c. – Professor Edward Opaliński,
Political upheavals of the 18th c.:
– The Tarnogród Confederation – Professor Wojciech Kriegseisen,
– The Radom Confederation – Ms Rozalia Kosińska,
– The Bar Confederation, the First Partition of Poland – Dr Dorota Dukwicz,
– The Sejm of 1776 – Mr Piotr Skowroński
2. Social history of Poland in the 16th–18th c.
Microhistory:
– Jews in Slutsk in the 17th c. – Dr Maria Cieśla,
– A monographic study of the starostwo of Drohobych – Professor Tomasz Wiślicz-Iwańczyk,
– Social history of Grodzisk Wielkopolski – Mr Łukasz Truściński,
– The parish of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Mstów, 17th–19th c. – Mr Amadeusz Szklarz-Habrowski.
Social and professional groups:
– The Burgher Estate in Poland in comparison with its Central European counterparts – Professor Andrzej Karpiński,
– The Vistula Spit villagers of the 16th–17th c. – Ms Jaśmina Korczak-Siedlecka,
– Tax collectors in the Kalisz county in the late 16th c. – Mr Michał Gochna.
3. Contacts between cultures and the transfer of cultural values
Elites in the global context:
– Europe and the Muslim world – Professor Dariusz Kołodziejczyk.
Elites in the European context:
– England – Poland – Dr Anna Kalinowska,
In local contexts:
– The German minority in Warsaw in the 18th c. – Dr Marta Kuc-Czerep
4. General historical topics from the 16th–17th c.
– Exotic animals in 16th–17th-century pamphlets – Mr Konrad Bielecki,
– The Ottoman province of Caffa in the 16th–17th c. – Andrii Zhyvachivskyi,
– The Portuguese Empire – Ms Agata Błoch.
5. Collective research projects
“Social attitudes towards the Polish state, 16th–18th c.”(completed)
Project leader: Professor Wojciech Kriegseisen.
Participating members of the Department: Dr Maria Cieśla, Dr Dorota Dukwicz, Dr Anna Kalinowska, Professor Andrzej Karpiński, Professor Edward Opaliński, Professor Henryk Wisner, Professor Tomasz Wiślicz-Iwańczyk.
Other participating members: Professor Bogusław Dybaś (Vienna–Toruń), Professor Jerzy Dygdała (Toruń), Professor Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski (London), Professor Edmund Kizik (Gdańsk), Ms Martyna Mirecka (St. Andrews), Professor Frank M. Sysyn (Toronto).
The results of the project have been published in the collective volume entitled ‘My i oni’. Społeczeństwo nowożytnej Rzeczypospolitej wobec państwa, ed. W. Kriegseisen, Warszawa, 2016.
RESEARCH PROJECTS OF THE DEPARTMENT
(alphabetical order)
– “Edition of diplomatic sources for the study of the reign of Stanisław August Poniatowski” (completed) – Dr Dorota Dukwicz, co-investigator (funded by NCN);
– “Elites in Europe and beyond: communication and mutual perception” – Professor Dariusz Kołodziejczyk (funded from the statutory funds of IH PAN);
– “Exotic animals in pamphlets printed in 1500–1650: modes of perception” – Mr Konrad Bielecki (doctoral dissertation project, supervision: Dr hab. A. Manikowski);
– “Fires in the Polish cities of the 16th–18th century and their economic, social and cultural consequences” – Professor Andrzej Karpiński (funded by NPRH via the Institute of History of the University of Warsaw);
– “Information on the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth circulating in written form in England in the first half of the 17th c. Information on Poland as recorded in John Pory’s newsletters” – Dr Anna Kalinowska, project leader (funded by NCN);
– “Jewish self-government in the Crown of Poland” – Dr Maria Cieśla, co-investigator (funded by NPRH via the Jagiellonian University);
– “Land tax collection in Kalisz county in the late 16th century. A case study on Poland’s treasury policy” – Mr Michał Gochna (doctoral dissertation project, supervision: Professor Marek Słoń);
– “Ländliche Gesellschaften” (completed) – Ms J. Korczak-Siedlecka (funded by the Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas, Universität Leipzig);
– “Poland on the eve of its first partition, 1769–1772” – Dr Dorota Dukwicz (funded by IH PAN);
– “Portuguese overseas identity: modern social networks” – Ms Agata Błoch (doctoral dissertation project, supervision: Professor Tomasz Wiślicz-Iwańczyk);
– “Prestige as a factor in political, social, economic and cultural life in the modern period” – (collective project, funded by IH PAN);
– “Social history of the starostwo of Drohobych in 1729–1755” – Professor Tomasz Wiślicz-Iwańczyk (funded from the statutory funds of IH PAN);
– “The German-speaking inhabitants of 18th-century Warsaw” – Dr Marta Kuc-Czerep (doctoral dissertation project, supervision: Professor Wojciech Kriegseisen);
– “The Ottoman province of Caffa in the 16th–17th c.” – Mr Andrii Zhyvachivskyi (doctoral dissertation project, supervision: Professor Dariusz Kołodziejczyk);
– “The parish of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Mstów in 1615–1815. A study on a local community” – Mr A. Szklarz-Habrowski (doctoral dissertation project, supervision: Professor Tomasz Wiślicz);
– “The political life of peasants in 16th–17th-c. Poland” – Professor Tomasz Wiślicz-Iwańczyk (funded by IH PAN);
– “The Radom Confederation: a Russian diktat or a nobility movement?” – Ms Rozalia Kosińska (doctoral dissertation project, supervision: Professor Wojciech Kriegseisen);
– “The relations between modern Poland and Persia, the Caucasus and the Volga region. Edition of selected documents” (completed) – Professor Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, project leader (funded by NPRH);
– “The Sejm of 1776” – Mr Piotr Skowroński (doctoral dissertation project, supervision: Professor Wojciech Kriegseisen);
– “The society of Grodzisk Wielkopolski under the Wettins” – Mr Łukasz Truściński (doctoral dissertation project, supervision: Professor Tomasz Wiślicz-Iwańczyk);
– “The upper ranks of the clergy in the second half of the 16th and the first half of the 17th century” – Professor Edward Opaliński (funded by IH PAN);
– “The urban development of Warsaw in the earliest phase of its status as capital” – Mr Konrad Szuba (doctoral dissertation project, supervision: Professor Marek Słoń);
– “Theologies of conversions to Christianity in early modern East-Central European Judaism” (completed) – Dr Maria Cieśla, co-investigator (funded by the European Research Council via the Hebrew University of Jerusalem);
– “Violence and honour in the social life of the Vistula Spit countryside in the 16th–17th century” – Ms Jaśmina Korczak-Siedlecka (doctoral dissertation project, supervision: Professor Tomasz Wiślicz-Iwańczyk).
