PERSONAL STATEMENT
A committed and knowledgeable scholar, extensively published in European medieval studies, with expertise in the history of art, liturgy, political thought, and manuscript studies. Highly experienced in project and team management, strategic planning, and budget administration. A confident presenter and teacher, able to impart complex information to audiences of all levels. Seeking a supervisory role.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2022 (on leave) - Assistant Professor (tenured)
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences 2022-2024 Humboldt Research Fellow
Universität Regensburg
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2018-2022 Assistant Professor (as member of the grant project team)
Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences 2019-2022 (6 months) Visiting Researcher
University of Cambridge
2018 (Fall) International Fellow
Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster, Germany 2017-2018 Assistant Professor (as member of the grant project team) Institute of History, University of Warsaw, Poland 2016-2017 Junior Research Fellow
Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame, USA 2015-2016 Fulbright Grantee
Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame, USA 2014-2015 Garstka Research Fellow
Department of History, University of Notre Dame, USA
2011 (Summer) Research Fellow in the Group A2 of Prof. Gerd Althoff
SFB 496, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster, Germany HIGHER EDUCATION
2017 MTS, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame, USA
Concentration: Liturgy
2016 Alumnus, Collegium Invisibile, Open Society Institute initiative
Medieval Art and Religious Rituals. Tutorials with G. Jurkowlaniec, H. Keller, P. Jeffery 2016 Ph.D., Faculty of History, University of Warsaw, Poland
2011 M.A., Institute of History, University of Warsaw, Poland summer semester 2010 as an Erasmus Student at the
Historisches Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster, Germany
PAWEŁ FIGURSKI
Curriculum Vitae
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Długa 26/28, 00-950 Warszawa, Poland
PUBLICATIONS (40)
Monographs (2)
Duchowość eucharystyczna biskupa Bernwarda z Hildesheim [The Eucharistic Spirituality of Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim] (University of Warsaw: M.A. thesis, 2011), 166 pp., 41 fig.
Modlitwy za króla w kanonie rzymskim Mszy. Studium z dziejów teologii politycznej wczesnego średniowiecza w łacińskim chrześcijaństwie [Prayers for a King in the Roman Canon
of the Mass. A Study in the Early Medieval Political Theology in Latin Christianity] (University of Warsaw: Ph.D. dissertation, 2016), 403 pp., 20 fig.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles (5)
"Das sakramentale Herrscherbild in der politischen Kultur des Frühmittelalters,"
Frühmittelalterliche Studien 50 (2016): 129–61.
"Obraz władcy liturgiczną modlitwą za króla? Nowa perspektywa dla interpretowania miniatury koronacji Henryka II z Sakramentarza Ratyzbońskiego (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 4456, fol. 11r)," ["An Image of a Ruler as the Liturgical Prayer for a King? A New Perspective for Interpreting Coronation Miniature from the Sacramentary of Regensburg (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 4456, fol. 11r),"] Historia Slavorum Occidentis 2 (2014): 107–28.
"Duchowość eucharystyczna Bernwarda z Hildesheim. O obrazowości kultury ottońskiej,"
["The Eucharistic Spirituality of Bernward of Hildeshiem. A Study in the Visuality of Ottonian Culture,"] Kwartalnik Historyczny 119/3 (2012): 425–65.
"Przekaz ideowy i datacja Mors et miracula beati Verneri," ["The Ideological Message and Dating of Mors et miracula beati Verneri,"] Studia Źródłoznawcze. Commentationes 48 (2010): 25–43.
forthcoming:
"Król i Ciało Chrystusa. Esej o sakralności władzy wczesnego i pełnego średniowiecza," ["A King and Corpus Christi. An Essay on the Sacrality of Political Power in the Early and High Middle Ages,"], accepted for publication by Kwartalnik Historyczny.
Peer-reviewed Book Chapters (15)
"Introduction," in: Political Liturgies in the High Middle Ages: Beyond the Legacy of Ernst
H. Kantorowicz, eds. Paweł Figurski, Johanna Dale, Pieter Byttebier (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021), 11–
24.
"Sacramental Kingship: Modern Historiography versus Medieval Sources," in: Political Liturgies in the High Middle Ages: Beyond the Legacy of Ernst H. Kantorowicz, eds. Paweł Figurski, Johanna Dale, Pieter Byttebier (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021), 25–60.
(together with Grzegorz Pac) "Saints and Relics," in: Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1300, ed. Florin Curta (London: Routledge, 2021), 338–53.
Myths: The Provenance of the Sacramentary of Tyniec,"], trans. Natalia Czajkowska, in:
Sakramentarz Tyniecki – perspektywa liturgiczno-muzyczna [Sacramentary of Tyniec—liturgical and musicological studies], ed. Susi Ferfoglia (Kraków: Tyniec Wydawnictwo Benedyktynów, 2020), 143–80.
"Liturgiczne początki Polonii. Lokalna adaptacja chrześcijańskiego kultu a tworzenie polskiej tożsamości politycznej w X-XI wieku," ["Liturgical Origins of Polonia. The Local Appropriation of Christian Worship and the Formation of Polish Political Identity (late 10th – late 11th century),'']
in: Oryginalność i wtórność polskiej kultury politycznej i religijnej (X-XIII w.), [Originality and Imitation of the Polish Political and Religious Culture (10th-13th century)],
eds. Roman Michałowski, Grzegorz Pac (Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2020), 724–95.
"Oratio periculosa, politica sed religiosa. O znaczeniu kanonu rzymskiego Mszy w kulturze średniowiecza," ["Oratio periculosa, politica sed religiosa. On the Significance of the Roman Canon of the Mass in Medieval Culture,"] in: Liber Romani. Studia ofiarowane Romanowi Michałowskiemu w siedemdziesiątą rocznicę urodzin, [Liber Romani. Studies offered to Roman Michałowski on His Seventieth Birthday Anniversary], eds. Grzegorz Pac, Krzysztof Skwierczyński (Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2020), 82–96.
"Sacramentarium Tinecense," in: W klasztornym skryptorium. Katalog wystawy, [In the Monastic Scriptorium. An Exhibition Catalogue], ed. Michał T. Gronowski (Kraków: Tyniec Wydawnictwo Benedyktynów, 2018), 23–9.
"Political Liturgies, Cologne's Manuscript Culture, and Historical Myths: The Provenance of the Sacramentary of Tyniec," in: Das Sakramentar aus Tyniec. Eine Prachthandschrift des 11. Jahrhunderts und die Beziehungen zwischen Köln und Krakau in der Zeit Kasimir des Erneuerers, eds. Klaus Gereon Beuckers, Andreas Bihrer (Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2018), 66–91.
"The Exultet of Bolesław II of Mazovia and the Sacralisation of Political Power in the High Middle Ages," in: Premodern Kingship and Contemporary Political Power. The King's Body Never Dies, eds. Karolina Mroziewicz, Aleksander Sroczyński (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016), 73–111.
Paweł Figurski, Karolina Mroziewicz, Aleksander Sroczyński, "Introduction," in: Premodern Kingship and Contemporary Political Power. The King's Body Never Dies, eds. Karolina Mroziewicz, Aleksander Sroczyński (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016), 9–21.
forthcoming:
(together with Gerald Schwedler, cooperation Christian Raffensperger, László Veszprémy, Emir O. Filipović) "Cooperation and Conflict in Diplomacy and War Within and Around Central Europe," in: Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe, eds. Nada Zecevic, Daniel Ziemann (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
"Beyond the Monarchical Church Model: Liturgy, Manuscripts, and Bishops in the Kingdom of Poland. Case Studies from the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries," in: Bischof und Diözese im Früh- und Hochmittelalter. Die 'Episkopalisierung der Kirche' im europäischen Vergleich, eds. Hedwig Röckelein, Andreas Bihrer (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2022), 361–404.
"Occasional Rites for Urgent Causes (e.g. war, journey, plague)," in: Brill Handbook of Medieval Latin Liturgy, eds. Daniel DiCenso, Andrew Irving (Leiden: Brill, 2023).
"Court versus Region in Making Liturgy," in: Brill Handbook of Medieval Latin Liturgy, eds. Daniel DiCenso, Andrew Irving (Leiden: Brill, 2023).
"Liturgy, Iconography, and Sacramental Kingship in the Ottonian & Salian Monastery of St Emmeram. Case Studies of the Politica Theologia Prima," in: St. Emmeram: Liturgie und Musik vom Mittelalter bis zur Frühen Neuzeit, eds. Harald Buchinger, David Hiley, Katelijne Schiltz (Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2023).
Edited Volumes (4)
Political Liturgies in the European Middle Ages. Beyond the Legacy of Ernst H. Kantorowicz, eds. Paweł Figurski, Pieter Byttebier, Johanna Dale (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021).
Ja-My-Oni. Tożsamości ludzi średniowiecza [I-We-They. Identities of the Medieval People], eds. Ludwik Jurek, Paweł Figurski, Maksymilian Sas, Wojciech Oczkowski (Warszawa:
Studenckie Koło Naukowe Historyków UW, 2012).
Granice i pogranicza w badaniach historycznych i antropologicznych [Borders and Borderlands in the Historical and Anthropological Studies], eds. Paweł Figurski, Maksymilian Sas (Warszawa:
Studenckie Koło Naukowe Historyków UW, 2012).
Ideologia i rytuały władzy w średniowieczu [Ideology and Rituals of Power in the Middle Ages], eds. Ludwik Jurek, Paweł Figurski, Norbert Gołdys et al. (Warszawa: Studenckie Koło Naukowe Historyków UW, 2011).
Editions and Translations (3)
Eva Schlotheuber (collaboration Paweł Figurski, Nadine Hoffmann) "De institucione Paradysi et humili ingressu sororum," in: Liturgical Life and Latin Learning at Paradies bei Soest, 1300-1425:
Inscription and Illumination in the Choir Books of a North German Dominican Convent, eds. Jeffrey Hamburger, Eva Schlotheuber, Susan Marti, and Margot Fassler, 2 vols (Münster:
Aschendorff Verlag, 2016), 2: 4–17.
(with a team), Epistola de morte imperatoris Friderici and Narratio itineris navalis ad terram sanctam, in: Ideologia i rytuały władzy w średniowieczu [Ideology and Rituals of Power in the Middle Ages], eds. Ludwik Jurek, Paweł Figurski, Norbert Gołdys et al. (Warszawa:
Studenckie Koło Naukowe Historyków UW, 2011), 109–40.
of Hagen Keller, "Tożsamości i indywidualność w czasach kryzysów pełnego średniowiecza (XI–XII w.)," ["Identities and Individuality during the Crises of the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Europe,"] in: Ja-My-Oni. Tożsamości ludzi średniowiecza [I-We-They. Identities of the Medieval People], eds. Ludwik Jurek, Paweł Figurski, Maksymilian Sas, Wojciech Oczkowski (Warszawa:
Studenckie Koło Naukowe Historyków UW, 2012), 9–23.
Book Reviews (5)
of: Florin Curta, Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (500–1300), 2 vols (Leiden: Brill, 2019) in: Early Medieval Europe 29/3 (2021): 620–2.
of: Robert E. Lerner, Ernst Kantorowicz. A Life (Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017) in: Kwartalnik Historyczny 127/2 (2020): 433–7.
of: Gnieźnieńskie koronacje królewskie i ich środkowoeuropejskie konteksty, eds. Józef Dobosz, Marzena Matla, Leszek Wetesko (Gniezno: Urząd Miejski w Gnieźnie, Instytut Kultury
Europejskiej UAM w Gnieźnie, Instytut Historii UAM w Poznaniu, 2011) in: Kwartalnik Historyczny 121/1 (2014): 181–6.
of: Wolfgang Eric Wagner, Die liturgische Gegenwart des abwesenden Königs:
Gebetsverbrüderung und Herrscherbild im frühen Mittelalter (Leiden: Brill, 2010) in: Studia Źródłoznawcze. Commentationes 51 (2013): 208–12.
of: Samantha Kahn Herrick, Imagining the Sacred Past. Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy (Cambridge-London: Harvard University Press, 2007) in: Przegląd Historyczny 100/2 (2009): 326–28.
Student Conference Publications (6)
"Epistola dedicatoria Mathildis Suevae (sent ca. 1025) – Intercultural Transmission of an Idea of Christianization between Piasts and Nobles of the German Reich," in: Inter-cultural Transmission of Intellectual Traditions in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period.
A Comparative Perspective. Abstract Book, eds. Olga Grinchenko, Christian Sahner,
Adam Izdebski (Warszawa: Instytut Historyczny UW, Instytut Historii PAN, 2012), 49–50.
"Mactata hostia. O tożsamości Brunona z Kwerfurtu oraz logice wizji dla czasów
ottońskich," ["Mactata hostia. Identity of Brun of Querfurt and the Logic of Vision during the Ottonian Age"], in: Ja-My-Oni. Tożsamości ludzi średniowiecza [I-We-They. Identities of the Medieval People], eds. Ludwik Jurek, Paweł Figurski, Maksymilian Sas, Wojciech Oczkowski (Warszawa: Studenckie Koło Naukowe Historyków UW, 2012), 67–85.
"Dokąd może zaprowadzić nas brat Konrad, qui nunquam ante in civitatem Plocensem intraverat?"
in: Podróżnicy i podróże w średniowieczu [Travelers and Travels in the Middle Ages], ed. Maciej Zapiór (Kraków: Koło Naukowe Historyków Studentów UJ, 2008), 139–47.
"Zabójstwo biskupa płockiego Wernera w kontekście wybranych utworów średniowiecznej hagiografii," ["The Murder of Płock Bishop, Werner, in the Context of Selected Medieval
Hagiography Texts"] in: Per aspera ad astra, vol. 3: Historia Polski średniowiecznej [History of Medieval Poland], ed. Adam Świątek (Kraków: Koło Naukowe Historyków Studentów UJ, 2008), 35–49.
"Problematyka edyktu Konstantyna Wielkiego wymierzonego w zwolenników nauki Ariusza," ["Constantine’s the Great Edict Against the Followers of Arian Teaching,"], Teka Historyka 32 (2007): 141–49.
"Działalność Grzegorza VII wobec ruchu odnowy moralnej Kościoła," ["Activity of Gregory VII and the Movement of the Church Moral Renewal,"] Teka Historyka 30-31 (2007): 137–45.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2022-27 National Heritage Fund of the NPRH Program (ca. 1 500 000 PLN) Ministry of Education and Science, Poland
2022-24 The Humboldt Research Fellowship (ca. 80 000 EUR) Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
2021 The Outstanding Young Academic Award (ca. 200 000 PLN) Ministry of Education and Science, Poland
2019-2021 Postdoctoral Society member
Trinity College, University of Cambridge
2018-2022 Principal Investigator (total funds of the project 596 822 PLN) Grant Sonatina 2 of Polish National Science Center (NCN)
Neglected Sources. A Socio-Political History of Poland (until ca. 1300) Based on Liturgical Manuscripts.
2018 International Fellow Award: 6000 EUR
Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster, Germany 2018 Heckman Stipend: 2000 USD
Hill Museum and Monastic Library, Saint John’s University, Collegeville, USA 2017-2018 Contractor (total funds of the project 714 518 PLN)
Grant OPUS 9 of Polish National Science Center (NCN)
Originality and Imitation of Polish Political and Religious Culture (ca. 966–1300) 2017 Short-term Graduate Research Fellowship (Christmas Break): 2 000 USD
Rome Global Gateway, University of Notre Dame, USA
2017 The Professional Development Grant (Spring Break): 1 500 USD
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA 2016 The Graduate Break Travel & Research Grant (Spring Break): 2 500 USD The Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA 2014-2016 Contractor (total funds of the project 212 485 PLN)
Grant NPRH of Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
Comparative Approaches to Political Theologies from the Middle Ages to the Present
2015 The Graduate Break Travel & Research Grant (Christmas Break): 2 100 USD The Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA 2012-2015 Principal Investigator (total funds of the project 84 900 PLN)
Grant PRELUDIUM 3 of Polish National Science Center (NCN)
Royal Power and the Sacrament of the Eucharist. A Study on Religion and Politics in the Ottonian and Salian Political Culture up to so-called Investiture Contest.
2013 START Scholarship for the best young academics: 28 000 PLN Foundation for Polish Science (FNP)
2012 START Scholarship for the best young academics: 28 000 PLN Foundation for Polish Science (FNP)
2011-2013 Scholarship for the best PhD candidates: 10 000 PLN (each year) Faculty of History, University of Warsaw, Poland
2007-2011 Scholarship for the best Polish students: 13 000 PLN (each year) Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland
2009 The Best Student Paper: awarded annually to the best thesis written in history at the Institute of History, University of Warsaw, Poland
2006 Finalist in the Polish Competition in Theology for High School Students Polish Theological Association
2005-2006 Finalist in the Polish Competition in History for High School Students Polish Historical Association
CONFERENCES AND INVITED LECTURES Conferences and Sessions Organized:
2022 University of Leeds — International Medieval Congress. Together with the Episcopus Society, three sessions entitled: Becoming the Bishop: Examinations of Episcopal Self-Fashioning (07/04) as well as roundtable: Political Liturgies in the High Middle Ages: Beyond the Legacy of Ernst H. Kantorowicz (07/06)
2020 Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, The Medieval Institute,
and deNicola Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame, PSALM Network – Zoom Conference: Rituals of the Earthly and Heavenly Kingdoms.
The Sacred, Secular, and Sacramental Powers in Premodern Europe (05/20-22)
2019 University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań – Workshop entitled: Political Liturgies:
An Overlooked Legacy of Ernst H. Kantorowicz (06/21-23)
2019 Western Michigan University – 54rd International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo. Session entitled: "Adaptation and Appropriation: Liturgies for New Power Realities in the Middle Ages" (05/10)
2018 University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań – Conference entitled: Liturgy and Politics in the Middle Ages: Bridging Divides (06/21-23)
2018 Western Michigan University – 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo. Session entitled: "Politics, Society, and Liturgy in the High Middle Ages: Forging Identity" (05/10)
2017 University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań – Conference entitled: Liturgy and Politics in the Middle Ages. An Overlooked Legacy of Ernst Kantorowicz
(07/13-14)
2016 Western Michigan University – 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo. Session entitled: "Liturgy and Politics in the Ottonian
Empire." (05/12-15)
2016 New College of Florida in Sarasota – New College Conference on Medieval &
Renaissance Studies. Session entitled: "Liturgy and Society in the Early and High Middle Ages" (03/12)
2016 Institute of History, University of Warsaw – Conference entitled: Liturgy and Politics: New Perspectives of Research (01/08)
Conference Papers and Invited Lectures:
2022 Queen Mary University of London — Seminar of Prof. Miri Rubin. Lecture entitled: Carolingian Political Theology and Its Contested Reception in the Ottonian Empire: A Study of the Invocation of Kings in the Eucharistic Liturgy (Canon
Missae), 860s-1020s.
2022 University of Leeds — International Medieval Congress. Paper entitled: Crusading Bishop at the Edges of Latin Christianity: Liturgy and War in the Unknown High Medieval Pontifical from Wrocław (07/04)
2022 Harris Manchester College, Oxford – Book Launch Discussion. Together with Conrad Leyser, Conor O’Brien, and Joshua Hordern. Presentations to celebrate the volume: "Political Liturgies in the European Middle Ages. Beyond the Legacy of Ernst H. Kantorowicz." (04/21)
2022 Canterbury Institute, Oxford – Guest Seminar. Lecture entitled: "Rulers, Kingship, and Legacies of Power." (02/25)
2021 University of Notre Dame – Fall Conference 2017: I Have Called You by Name.
Human Dignity in a Secular World. Paper entitled: "Lost in Translation: Catholic Liturgy and the Sacramental Dignity of Rulership." (11/11)
2021 Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences — Cantus Planus Research Forum. Paper entitled: "Neglected Sources. Socio-Political History of Poland based on Liturgical Manuscripts (until ca. 1300)." (07/28)
2021 Western Michigan University – 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo. Paper entitled: "Antemurale. Prehistory of an Idea in the Early and High Medieval Kingdom of Poland." (05/15)
2021 MECERN Network — The Fourth Biennial Conference of the Medieval Central Europe Research Network: Networks – Cooperation – Rivalry. Paper entitled:
"Medieval Liturgy and the Making of Polish Political Identity." (04/07)
2021 Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame — Seminar of Prof. Nina Gilbetic. Invited Lecture entitled: "Medieval Liturgy and the Making of Polish Political Identity." (03/25)
2020 Fundacja Chronić Dobro przy Opactwie Tynieckim, Tyniecki Ośrodek Śpiewu Gregoriańskiego, Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie,
Podyplomowe Studia z Monodii Liturgicznej — Sakramentarz tyniecki – perspektywa liturgiczno-muzyczna. Invited lecture entitled: "Lex orandi – lex interpretandi. Liturgia Sakramentarza Tynieckiego a proweniencja rękopisu." (10/09)
2020 Universität Wien — Interuniversitäres Lektüreseminar zur älteren
Liturgiegeschichte. Paper entitled: "Sacramental Kingship: Modern Historiography versus Medieval Sources." (09/04)
2020 Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, The Medieval Institute
and deNicola Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame, PSALM Network – Rituals of the Earthly and Heavenly Kingdoms. The Sacred, Secular, and Sacramental Powers in Premodern Europe. Paper entitled: "Sacramental Kingship: In-between Modern Historiography and Medieval Sources." (05/20)
2020 Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen — 63. Colloquiums der Germania Sacra. Invited paper entitled: "Bishops and the Liturgical Manuscripts in Early Medieval Poland." (02/28)
2020 National Library in Warsaw — Seminarium historyczne. Invited lecture entitled:
"Między historycznymi mitami a opisem źródła. Sakramentarz Tyniecki i problemy związane z jego średniowieczną proweniencją." (01/10)
2019 The Institute of Historical Research (IHR), London — Early Medieval Seminar.
Invited lecture entitled: "Dangerous Prayer: Liturgical Construction of Medieval Kingship, c.800—c.1200." (12/04)
2019 University of Cambridge — Covent Garden Seminar of Prof. Susan Rankin.
Invited lecture entitled: "Carolingian Political Theology and its Contested Reception in the Ottonian Church: A Study of the Invocation of Kings in the Eucharistic Liturgy (Canon Missae), c.860–1020." (11/12)
2019 University of Cambridge — Medieval Encounters Seminar of Prof. Nora Berend.
Invited lecture entitled: "Medieval Liturgy and the Making of Polish Political Identity." (10/16)
2019 Universität Regensburg – Liturgie und Musik in St. Emmeram vom Mittelalter bis zur Frühen Neuzeit. Invited paper entitled: "Theologies of the Political
in the Selected Sources Produced or Used in Ottonian-Salian Regensburg." (09/22)
2019 Columbia University — Medieval Seminar. Invited lecture entitled: "Dangerous Prayer: Liturgical Construction of Medieval Kingship (c.800—c.1200)." (04/02) 2019 Western Michigan University – 54rd International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo. Paper entitled: "Making the World as It Was Meant to Be Made?
Christian Liturgy and the Formation of Polish Political Identity in the Middle Ages." (05/10)
2019 University of British Columbia — Theologies of the Political: From Augustine to Agamben, and Beyond. Invited paper entitled: "Between the Sacred and the Secular Kingdom: Liturgical Struggles over the Proper Place of Politics in Medieval
Christianity." (03/29-30)
2018 Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster – Seminar von Prof. Wolfgang Eric Wagner. Invited lecture entitled: "The Sacramental Kingship. Eucharistic Liturgies and Royal Power in the Early and High Middle Ages." (12/12)
2018 Universidad de Navarra — Institute for Culture and Society Seminar. Invited lecture entitled: "Dangerous Prayers: Eucharistic Liturgies, Royal Power,
and Medieval Political Theology (ca.800-ca.1200)." (11/27)
2018 Uniwersytet Warszawski — Seminar of Prof. Roman Michałowski. Invited lecture entitled: "W Kościele Chrystusa oraz chacie Piasta. Lokalna adaptacja liturgii chrześcijańskiej i jej wpływ na powstanie polskiej tożsamości politycznej (X-XI wiek)." (10/30)
2018 Universität Wien — Interuniversitäres Lektüreseminar zur älteren
Liturgiegeschichte. Paper entitled: "Political Liturgies, Cologne's Manuscript Culture, and Historical Myths, or: The Provenance of the Sacramentary of Tyniec." (09/07)
2018 University of Leeds — International Medieval Congress. Paper entitled: "Liturgical Realpolitik, Historiographical Memory, and the Restoration(s) of the Medieval Polish Kingdom." (07/03)
2018 University of Cambridge — The Sacral and the Secular: Early Medieval Political Theology. Invited paper entitled: "Secularizing Liturgies? Paradoxes of Prayers for Rulers in Medieval Manuscripts and Modern Historiography." (06/28)
2018 University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań — Liturgy and Politics in the Middle Ages: Bridging Divides. Paper entitled: "Liturgy and Early Medieval State Formation:
A Polish Case Study." (06/22)
2018 Western Michigan University – 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo. Paper entitled: "New Wines into New Wineskins: Medieval Liturgy and the Making of Poland." (05/11)
2018 Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster – Seminar von Prof. Wolfgang Eric Wagner. Invited lecture entitled: "The Ottonian / early Salian Church and the
Contested Reception of Carolingian Political Theology. A Study of the Political Prayers in the Canon of the Mass." (04/24)
2018 University of Warsaw – Seminar of Prof. Piotr Skubiszewski. Invited lecture entitled: "Nowa interpretacja Sakramentarza Tynieckiego, czyli dlaczego dotychczasowe rekonstrukcje historii rękopisu są mało prawdopodobne." (02/20)
2018 Polish Academy of Sciences – Seminar of Prof. Jacek Soszyński. Invited lecture entitled: "Między historycznymi mitami a opisem źródła. Sakramentarz Tyniecki i problemy związane z jego średniowieczną proweniencją." (02/21)
2017 Universität Salzburg – Interuniversitäres Lektüreseminar zur älteren Liturgiegeschichte Paper entitled: "Rex quasi episcopus: A View on the Sacralization of Kingship
from the perspective of the Prayer for the Ruler in the Canon of the Mass." (11/24) 2017 University of Notre Dame – Fall Conference 2017: Through Every Human Heart.
Paper entitled: "A History of Misconception: Secular Ideologies and Sacralization of Political Power." (11/09)
2017 University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań – Liturgy and Politics in the Middle Ages.
An Overlooked Legacy of Ernst Kantorowicz. Paper entitled: "Kantorowicz’s Liturgical Kingship Reconsidered." (07/13)
2017 Universität Regensburg – Gottesdienst in Regensburger Institutionen. Zur Vielfalt liturgischer Traditionen in der Vormoderne. Paper entitled: "Regensburg Prayers for Rulers in the Roman Canon of the Mass. An Insight into the Broader
Phenomenon." (07/07)
2017 Christian Albrechts-Universität Kiel – Das Sakramentar aus Tyniec. Köln, das Reich und der politische Neuanfang Polens unter König Kasimir dem Erneuerer (1034-1058).
Invited paper entitled: "Political Liturgy of the Sacramentary of Tyniec in the Context of Ottonian-Salian Liturgical Books." (07/01)
2017 Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster – Ritual and Historiography
in the Middle Ages. Paper entitled: "Prayers for Rulers in the Roman Canon of the Mass and the so-called Investiturstreit." (04/01)
2016 Royal Castle in Warsaw – Dziedzictwo Piastów mazowieckich. Stan badań i postulaty badawcze. Paper entitled: "Teologia polityczna na średniowiecznym Mazowszu od XII do początku XIV w." (10/28)
2016 Institute of European Culture of the UAM in Gniezno – Colloquia Mediaevalia Gnesnensia IV: Europa Christiana. Konwersja władcy, sakralizacja władzy,
chrystianizacja poddanych. Paper entitled: "O chrystianizacji oraz sakralizacji karolińsko- ottońskiej władzy na podstawie liturgicznych modlitw za rządzących." (10/19)
2016 Western Michigan University – 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo. Paper entitled: "The Ideal of rex et sacerdos in the Ottonian Liturgical Books: A Reconsideration." (05/14)
2016 New College of Florida in Sarasota – New College Conference on Medieval &
Renaissance Studies. Paper entitled: "Charles the Bald and the Roman Canon of the Mass:
Upheaval in Christian Usage of Symbolic Language of Authority." (03/13)
2016 Institute of History, University of Warsaw – Liturgy and Politics: New Perspectives of Research. Paper entitled: "Liturgy and Politics in Mazovia in the High Middle Ages." (01/08)
2015 Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw – Rex nunquam moritur:
Comparative Approaches to Political Theologies from the Middle Ages to the Present.
Paper entitled: "Boleslaus II of Mazovia as rex et sacerdos? Exultet from Płock and the Political Theology of Medieval Europe." (11/06-07)
2015 Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen – Mittelalterlische Seminar von Prof. Steffen Patzold. Invited lecture entitled: "Rex quasi episcopus: Prayers for Rulers during the Eucharist and the Sacralization of Medieval Kingship." (11/02)
2015 University of Leeds – International Medieval Congress. Paper entitled: "Liturgical Prayers for Rulers in the Roman Canon of the Mass: Origins of an Overlooked Tradition and Its Consequences for Medieval Political Theology during Reforms of the Church."
2015 Princeton University – Conference on Rulers, Kingship, and Legacies of Power.
Paper entitled: "Forging Consensus on Sacral Kingship. Evidence from the Prayer for the Ruler in the Roman Canon of the Mass (Te igitur clementissime Pater)." (04/10) 2015 University of Florida. Gainsville – Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies. Paper entitled: "King’s Communion. Transpersonal Significance of the Royal Religious Acts in Early and High Middle Ages."
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2020-2021 Courses in programming (Python and SQL) Łukasz Bolda Programming Trainer 2020 ERC grant writing workshops
Yellow Research
2019- SCTA liturgical text integration (in progress)
SCTA community and web service of Prof. Jeffrey Witt 2019-2020 Contractor for the medieval history projects
Royal Castle in Warsaw
2019 Training in intellectual property rights
Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences 2018 AK-Digital-Humanities sessions
Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster, Germany 2017 Striving for Excellence in Teaching Certificate
KANEB Center, University of Notre Dame 2016-2017 Research Assistant of Prof. Kevin Grove
Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame
2014 (spring) Academic Skills Training: Presentation, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Negotiations Foundation for Polish Science, Poland
2012 (summer) Participant of the 37. Internationaler Wolfenbütteler Sommerkurs: Die Ordnung des Wissens — der mittelalterliche Wissenskosmos
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbütel, Germany 2012 (summer) Erasmus Intern of Prof. Eva Schlotheuber
Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf 2011 Book proofreading contractor
Polish Science Publisher (PWN), Warsaw, Poland 2009-2010 Editor-in Chief of the Student Academic Journal Teka Historyka, University of Warsaw, Poland TEACHING
Trinity College, Cambridge, UK
Mentoring within Post-doctoral Society with graduate students (Winter/Spring 2021) Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Summer University Courses on Political Liturgies within Late Antique Political Theology from the Early Church to the Byzantine Era (summer 2021 and 2022)
Historisches Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster, Germany One course meeting (2h): The Coronation of Charles the Bald in 869 (Fall 2018) within the Proseminar of Prof. Wolfgang Eric Wagner
Department of History, University of Notre Dame, USA Lecture course: History of Medieval Poland (Spring 2015) Institute of History, University of Warsaw, Poland
Training course: Translating English Historiography into Polish (Fall 2017)
Lecture course: Religion, Politics, Mentality: History of Medieval Poland (Spring 2014) Lecture course: Sacral Kingship in Medieval Europe (ca. 900-1100) (Fall 2013);
Lecture course: History of Medieval Poland According to Gallus Anonymus (Fall 2013) Training course: Translating Sources and Historiography from German into Polish (Fall 2012 and Spring 2013)
Open University, University of Warsaw, Poland
Lecture course: Game of Thrones and Other Mysteries of the Piast Ruling Dynasty:
A Memorable History of Poland 7 times from (Winter 2018/Spring 2019)
until (Winter/Spring 2021)
Lecture course: Imperium. History of the Roman Empire from Augustus until Antichrist
(Winter/Spring 2021) and (Spring/Summer 2021)
Collegium Invisibile, Open Society Institute initiative
Directed Readings with Arkadiusz Siwko (2013/2014)
Lecture course: Introduction into Medieval History — The Gesta of Gallus Anonymus
(summer 2011)
Directed Readings with Stanisław Kostyra (2010/2011) PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Płock Scientific Society (PTN), Płock, Poland
Member (since 2021)
Eikón / Imago Journal (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Advisory Board Member (since 2019)
Henry Bradshaw Society, London, UK
Member (since 2016)
The Medieval Academy of America, USA
Member (since 2016)
The PSALM-Network (Politics, Society, and Liturgy in the Middle Ages) Co-Founder and Member (since 2016)
MECERN (Medieval Central Europe Research Network)
Member (since 2015)
LANGUAGES
Polish: native
Latin: fluent in reading
English: C2, fluent in reading and speaking German: C1, fluent in reading and speaking French: B2, fluent in reading, good in speaking Italian: good in reading
Spanish: good in reading
REFERENCES ON REQUEST
Prof. Margot Fassler Prof. Krzysztof Skwierczyński Prof. Susan Rankin Department of Theology,
University of Notre Dame Faculty of Culture and Arts,
University of Warsaw Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge 241 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556 Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28
00-927 Warszawa, Poland Emmanuel College Cambridge CB2 3AP Email: mfassler@nd.edu Email: k.skwierczynski@uw.edu.pl Email: skr1000@cam.ac.uk
