Notes on Contributors
Robert Antonín | ORCID: 0000-0002-6902-1382
is Associate professor in medieval history at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts, the University of Ostrava, where he is also a Dean since 2018. His long-term research interests focus on the issues of political, social, economic, and cultural development of Central Europe during the high Middle Ages and on the topics related to the limits of interpretation of (not only) medieval historiography. He is an author of several monographs, including The Ideal Ruler in Medieval Bohemia, ECEE 44 (Brill, 2017), as well as numerous research articles and chapters on medieval history. He i salso the main editor of the collective monograph Čtvrtý lateránský koncil a české země ve 13. a 14. století [The Fourth Lateran Council and the Czech lands in thirteenth and fourteenth centuries] (Lidové noviny, 2020). Antonín’s most recent works include: “‘Omnis Potestas a Deo est’: The Sacred Aspects of the Legitimacy of the Ruler in the Narrative Sources From Medieval Bohemia,” Bohemia 56 (2016): 62–87; “Bishop Andrew of Prague and Church in Medieval Czech Lands After the Fourth Lateran Council,” ZfO 69.4 (2020): 453–69; “The Rhetoric of the Crusades and Anti-Paganism in the Political Propaganda of Ottokar II Premislas of Bohemia,” in The Expansion of the Faith: Crusading on the Frontiers of Latin Christendom in the High Middle Ages, ed. Paul Srodecki and Norbert Kersken, Outremer 14 (Brepols, 2021), 291–302.
Dariusz Dąbrowski | ORCID: 0000-0002-7545-9663
is Full Professor at the Faculty of History Department of the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The main field of research interest is the history of medieval Rus and dynastic genealogy. Author of five monographs, including two volumes of biography of the King of Rus Daniel Romanovich, genealogy of the Romanovichi and Mstislavichi branches (Rodowód Romanowiczów, książąt halicko-wołyńskich [Genealogy of the Romanovichi, Princes of Galich-Volhynia] [Wydawnictwo Historyczne, 2002]; Genealogia Mścisławowiczów. Pierwsze pokolenia (do początku XIV w.) [Genealogy of the Mstislavichi. The First Generations (to the Beginning of the Fourteenth Century)] [Avalon, 2008]; Daniel Romanowicz król Rusi (ok. 1201–1264). Biografia polityczna [Daniel Romanovich King of Ruthenia (ca. 1201–1264). Political Biography] [Avalon, 2012]; Król Rusi Daniel Romanowicz. O ruskiej rodzinie książęcej, społeczeństwie i kulturze w XIII w. [King Daniel Romanovich of Ruthenia. On the Ruthenian Princely Family, Society and Culture in the Thirteenth Century] [Avalon, 2016]), as well as over 100 articles published e.g. in Russian, Ukrainian, German, and English. He led the international team that prepared the edition of the Chronica Galiciano-Voliniana (Chronica Romanoviciana), ed. Dariusz Dąbrowski, Adrian Jusupović, with collaboration of Irina Jurieva, Alexandr Majorov, Tatiana Vilkul, MPH NS 16 (Polska Akademia Umiejętności, 2017) along with the translation of this primary source into Polish. Prof. Dąbrowski is the initiator of the publishing series Monografie Pracowni Badań nad Dziejami Rusi Uniwersytetu Kazimierza Wielkiego w Bydgoszczy (volumes appear with the leading Polish publisher Avalon).
Radosław Kotecki | ORCID: 0000-0002-6757-9358
is Associate Professor at the Faculty of History, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. His current research concerns clerical warfare and military religion in the Middle Ages, especially Poland. He is preparing a monograph on the figure of the clerical “standard-bearer” and battle talismans (signa victricia) in medieval Central and Eastern European historiography against the phenomena of sacralization and ritualization of war. He is co-editor of several books, including Between Sword and Prayer: Warfare and Medieval Clergy in Cultural Perspective, EMC 3 (Brill, 2018) and Christianity and War in Medieval East Central and Northern Europe (ARC Humanities, 2021). His recent works include: “Pious Rulers, Princely Clerics, and Angels of Light: ‘Imperial Holy War’ Imagery in Twelfth-Century Poland and Rus’,” in Christianity and War in Medieval East Central Europe and Scandinavia, ed. Radosław Kotecki, Carsten Selch Jensen and Stephen Bennett (ARC Humanities, 2021), 159–88; “Bishops and the Legitimisation of War in Piast Poland until the Early Thirteenth Century,” PH 111.3 (2020): 437–70; “Public Military Service of Bishops in the Piast Monarchy (Twelfth to Early Thirteenth Centuries),” in Continuation or Change? Borders and Frontiers in Late Antiquity and Medieval Europe, ed. Gregory Leighton, Piotr Pranke, and Łukasz Różycki (Routledge, 2023), 206–37. Since 2023 he is co-editor of the Trivent’s series “Religion and War in the Middle Ages.”
Jacek Maciejewski | ORCID: 0000-0003-0505-975X
is Full Professor, Head of the Medieval History Department at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. His current research primarily concerns two fields, the cultural phenomenon of militant clergy, and episcopal appointments and building dioceses in medieval Poland. He is the author or co-editor of several books, among them: Episkopat polski doby dzielnicowej 1180–1320 [Polish episcopacy of the feudal defragmentation era] (Societas Vistulana, 2003) and “Adventus episcopi.” Pozaliturgiczne aspekty inauguracji władzy biskupiej w Polsce średniowiecznej na tle europejskim [Non-liturgical aspects of episcopal inauguration in medieval Poland on the European background] (UKW, 2013); “Ecclesia et Violentia”: Violence against the Church and Violence within the Church in the Middle Ages (Cambridge Scholars, 2014); Between Sword and Prayer: Warfare and Medieval Clergy in Cultural Perspective, EMC 3 (Brill, 2018) as well as numerous articles and book chapters, recently in English: “Writing Episcopal Courage in Twelfth-Century Poland: Gallus Anonymous and Master Vincentius,” in Episcopal Power and Personality in Medieval Europe 900–1480, ed. Peter Coss et al., MCS 42 (Brepols, 2020), 35–61 (with Radosław Kotecki); “Premeditation and Determination on the Way to the Polish Episcopacy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries,” in Bishops’ Identities, Careers, and Networks in Medieval Europe, ed. Sarah E. Thomas, MCS 44 (Brepols, 2020), 93–102; “Memory of Warrior Bishops of Płock in the Writings of Jan Długosz,” in Christianity and War in Medieval East Central Europe and Scandinavia, ed. Radosław Kotecki, Carsten Selch Jensen and Stephen Bennett (ARC Humanities, 2021), 75–95. Since 2023 he is co-editor of the Trivent’s series “Religion and War in the Middle Ages.”
Yulia Mikhailova
is Associate Professor of history at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Her monograph Property, Power, and Authority in Rus and Latin Europe, ca. 1000–1236 (ARC Humanities, 2018) offers a comparative analysis of forms of political and social organizations in the high medieval West and Rus. Comparative medieval history is the main focus of Dr. Mikhailova’s research; her recent and forthcoming works include “Compared to Women? The Life of Abraham of Smolensk in the Context of Medieval Visionary Literature,” Byzantinoslavica, Revue internationale des études byzantines 78.1–2 (2020): 173–202; “Reflection of the Crusading Movement in Rusian Sources: Tantalizing Hints,” in Fruits of Devotion: Essays in Honor of Predrag Matejic, ed. M.A. Johnson and Alice Isabelle Sullivan, Ohio Slavic Papers 11 (The Ohio State University Press, forthc. 2023); “Sviatoslav of Kiev, the Diorama of His Last Battle, and Paradoxes of Competing Nationalisms,” in Picturing Russian Empire, ed. Valerie Kivelson and Joan Neuberger (Oxford University Press, forthc. 2023).
László Veszprémy
is Head of the Medieval History Department at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, formerly Head of the Institute of Military History in Budapest. His research interests are medieval military history, Latin historiography and paleography. He is the author and co-editor of several books, including bilingual editions of medieval chronicles in the series of Central European medieval texts, the last time published with János M. Bak the Chronicle of the Deeds of the Hungarians from the Fourteenth-Century Illuminated Codex (CEU Pres, 2018). He collaborated in several volumes of the series Latin codex fragments in Hungarian libraries (Akadémiai and Harrassowitz, 1988–1998) and widely published on the Crusades and knightly culture, most recently “The Knightly Culture of the Hungarian Barons of the Angevin Period: Ideals and Practice,” in Formations et cultures des officiers et de l’entourage des princes dans les territoires angevins (milieu XIIIe–fin XVe siècle) (L’École française de Rome, 2019). He is a recurrent lecturer at the International Chronicle Society conferences and is currently on the editorial board of several journals: Hungarian Quarterly of Military History; Századok; Review of Hungarian Historical Society; Z badań nad kisążką i ksiegozbiorami historycznymi.
Dušan Zupka | ORCID: 0000-0003-2699-3736
is a senior researcher at the Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. He has previously worked at the History Faculty of the Oxford University, and held research scholarships at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He is author of two monographs, Ritual and Symbolic Communication in Medieval Hungary under the Árpád Dynasty, 1000–1301, ECEE 39 (Brill, 2016) and Meč a kríž. Vojna a náboženstvo v stredovekej strednej Európe 10.–12. storočie [The Sword and the Cross. War and religion in medieval East Central Europe: 10th–12th century] (VEDA, 2020). Zupka recently co-edited an edited volume Rulership in Medieval East Central Europe. Power, Rituals and Legitimacy in Bohemia, Hungary and Poland (Brill, 2021). His research focuses on power, rulership, religious warfare and communication in medieval East Central Europe. Since 2017 he is co-editor of the Brill’s series “East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450.”