Notes on Contributors
Robert Antonín
is Associate Professor in medieval history at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts, the University of Ostrava, where he has also been the Dean. His long-term research interests focus on the issues of political, social, economic, and cultural development of Central Europe during High Middle Ages and on the topics related to the limits of interpretation of (not only) medieval historiography. He is the author of several monographs, including The Ideal Ruler in Medieval Bohemia (Brill, 2017), numerous research articles on medieval history and the main editor of the collective monograph The Fourth Lateran Council and the Czech Lands in 13th and 14th centuries (NLN, 2020).
Attila Bárány
(Ph.D. 2001, University of Debrecen; Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2015) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medieval History and Head of the Doctoral School at Debrecen University. He is principal researcher of “Hungary in medieval Europe” and series editor of Memoria Hungariae. His research fields are medieval diplomacy and warfare but also published on medieval England. He is an author of five monographs (e.g. the latest on 1520s Hungarian-Western-Ottoman relations) and edited proceedings (Das Konzil von Konstanz und Ungarn; The Jagiellonians in Europe).
Julia Burkhardt
received her Doctoral Degree (2011) and Habilitation Degree (2018) from Heidelberg University. Since 2020, she is Professor of Late Medieval History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. Her academic interests cover a wide range in the field of medieval studies. She is the author of two monographs: Reichsversammlungen im Spätmittelalter. Politische Willensbildung in Polen, Ungarn und Deutschland (Thorbecke, 2017) and Von Bienen lernen. Das Bonum universale de apibus des Thomas von Cantimpré als Gemeinschaftsentwurf (Analyse, Edition, Übersetzung Kommentar) (Schnell & Steiner, 2020). In addition, she has edited several volumes and authored various articles on political, cultural, and gender history, religious communities as well as manuscript circulation in Medieval Central Europe.
Bożena Czwojdrak
is Assistant Professor in the Institute of History at the University of Silesia in Katowice. She authored three books (Rogowscy herbu Działosza podskarbiowie królewscy, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2002; Jastrzębce, Societas Vistulana, 2007; Zofia Holszańska. Studium o dworze i roli królowej w późnośredniowiecznej Polsce, DiG, 2012) and several score scientific articles issued in periodicals and post-conference publications in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine. She conducts research on the genealogy of the gentry and magnates as well as royal courts in late medieval Poland.
Zbigniew Dalewski
(Ph.D. 1994) is Professor at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences and at the University of Warsaw. His research focuses on political and cultural history of the Middle Ages, especially in East Central Europe. His scholarly interests include research on medieval rulership, political culture, historiography, and ritual studies. He is an author of several books, articles and book chapters, including Ritual and Politics: Writing the History of a Dynastic Conflict in Medieval Poland (Brill, 2008).
Stephan Flemmig
(Ph.D. 2009) studied medieval and modern history, art history, and biology in Leipzig and Cracow. This was followed by a dissertation dealing with medieval veneration of saints and then a Habilitation addressing the political history of entanglements in late medieval East-Central Europe. After locum tenens professorships in Hamburg and Leipzig, Stephan Flemmig is presently academic counselor (Akademischer Rat) at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena.
Márta Font
is Professor of history at University of Pécs (Department of Medieval and Early Modern History). She is Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc), corr. member of Akademie der Wissenschaften Mainz (Germany). Her research and publications focus on the political, social and cultural history of East Central Europe, particularly Hungary and the Kievan Rus’ from the tenth to thirteenth centuries. She published 25 books and over 200 studies in different languages (Hungarian, Russian, German, and English).
Paul W. Knoll
(Ph.D. 1964) taught at Purdue University (1965–1969) and the University of Southern California (1969 to 2011). His scholarly interests are medieval East Central Europe, the history of universities, and conciliarism. His publications include The Rise of the Polish Monarchy. Piast Poland in East Central Europe (University of Chicago Press, 1972); an English translation of Gallus Anonymous’ chronicle, Gesta principum Polonorum / Deeds of the Princes of the Poles (CEU Press, 2007), and “A Pearl of Powerful Learning.” The University of Cracow in the Fifteenth Century (Brill, 2016).
Vinni Lucherini
is Professor of History of Medieval Art at the University of Naples “Federico II”. She published two monographs (La Cattedrale di Napoli. Storia, architettura, storiografia di un monumento medievale, École française de Rome, 2009; L’abbazia di Bominaco in Abruzzo. Organizzazione architettonica e progetto decorativo XI–XIII secolo, Campisano Editore, 2016), and various essays on medieval art in Southern Italy, Rome, France and Hungary, and on Angevin monumental tombs, medieval sources for the art history, historiography of 19th and 20th century. She also edited several volumes based on an interdisciplinary approach to medieval art.
Marcin R. Pauk
is Associate Professor at the Department of Medieval History, Institute of History, University of Warsaw. His research interests are focused on political and religious culture, ecclesiastical and secular structures of power, religious foundations, Christianization process and legal history of the East-Central Europe in 10th–14th century.
Christian Raffensperger
is Professor and Chair of history at Wittenberg, as well as an associate of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. He has published several books dealing with the history of Kyivan Rus’ and medieval Eastern Europe, beginning with Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus’ in the Medieval World, 988–1146 (Harvard University Press, 2012) and most recently, Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe (Lexington Books, 2018). Raffensperger’s studies present the Rus’ state not as a principality or a collection of principalities but as one of the realms of medieval Europe.
Monika Saczyńska-Vercamer
is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the PAS in Warsaw (the Centre of History of the Material Culture in the Middle Ages and the Modern Age). She has published articles on the social context of private religious practice, material culture, and the supplications to the Apostolic Penitentiary. Her latest monograph is published in 2021: Władza i grzech. Supliki z metropolii gnieźnieńskiej do Penitencjarii Apostolskiej w XV w. (Power and Sin. Supplications from the Province of Gniezno to the Penitentiary in 15th Century).
Felicitas Schmieder
is Professor of pre-modern history at FernUniversität in Hagen. She received her Ph.D. in 1991, her habilitation in 2000 both in Frankfurt/Main. She is a recurrent visiting professor at Central European University, Budapest. Her main research areas: pre-modern cartography; medieval cross-cultural contacts and perceptions; prophecy as political language; medieval German urban history; European cultural memory.
Panos Sophoulis
received his Doctoral Degree from Oxford University (2005), and is currently an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Athens. His academic interests cover a wide range in the field of medieval studies. He is the author of two monographs: Byzantium and Bulgaria, 775–831 (Brill, 2012) and Banditry in the Medieval Balkans, 800–1500 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). In addition to these books, he has edited several volumes focusing mainly on the history and culture of Southeastern Europe during the Middle Ages.
Grischa Vercamer
received his Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin and his Habilitation from the Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder and currently works as Professor at the Technical University of Chemnitz/Germany. His most important publications (both in German): ‘Administrative, social and settlement history of the commandry of Königsberg (Kaliningrad) in Prussia from the 13th–16th centuries’ (N.G. Elwert, 2010); ‘Perception of good and bad power/rulers in England, Poland and the Holy Roman Empire in the 12th century in the historiography’ (Harrassowitz, 2020). He published several articles and edited eight volumes within the field of the High and Late Middle Ages.
Martin Wihoda
studied history at the universities of Brno, Würzburg and Marburg, and is currently a Professor of Medieval History at the Masaryk University (Brno). Professionally, he focuses on the Europeanisation of Central Europe in the Early and High Middle Ages. He is the author of seven monographs, among them also Vladislaus Henry. The Formation of Moravian Identity (Brill, 2015). In addition to these books, he has edited several volumes focusing on the history of medieval Central Europe.
Dušan Zupka
(Ph.D. 2009) is Assistant Professor at Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava and Researcher at the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Previously he worked at the History Faculty of the Oxford University, and he held research scholarships at CEU in Budapest and Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He has published several articles and book chapters on power, rulership, and communication in medieval East Central Europe. His first book was Ritual and Symbolic Communication in Medieval Hungary under the Árpád Dynasty, 1000–1301 (Brill, 2016). His newest book (2020) Meč a kríž (The Sword and the Cross) deals with war and religion in medieval East Central Europe (10th–12th century).