Notes on Contributors
Florin Curta
is Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Florida. His books include The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology in the Lower Danube Region, c. 500–700 (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and Slavs in the Making: History, Linguistics, and Archaeology in Eastern Europe, ca. 500–700 (Routledge, 2021). He is also the co-author of Women Archaeologists under Communism, 1917–1989 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and published several articles and chapters on the history of medieval archaeology. Curta is the editor of the Brill online Bibliography of the History and Archaeology of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages and co-editor of the Brill series “East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450.” He is currently working on a monograph on the social archaeology of the Avars.
Piotr Guzowski
is a Professor at the Faculty of History of the University of Bialystok and the scientific secretary of the Center for Studies on Demographic and Economic Structures of Premodern Central-Eastern Europe at that University. His main academic interests are peasant and manorial economy, peasant and noble family and household in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period, historical demography and environmental history. Among other things, he is the author of two books: Chłopi i pieniądze na przełomie średniowiecza i czasów nowożytnych (2008) and Rodzina szlachecka w Polsce przedrozbiorowej. Studium demograficzne (2019). He is also co-editor of the volume Framing the Polish Family in the Past (Routledge, 2021).
Adam Hudek
is a researcher at the Institute of History at the Slovak Academy of Science. He is a fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History of Czech Academy of Sciences (March 2021–February 2024) under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement. His areas of research are intellectual history and historiography in socialist Czechoslovakia. Author of the monograph The Most Politicized Science: Slovak Historiography, 1948–1968 (in Slovak, 2010) and co-editor of a volume on the history of Czechoslovakism (Routledge, 2021). His most recent work is a chapter in the edited volume Czechoslovakia and Eastern Europe in the Era of Normalisation, 1969–1989 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
Tereza Johanidesová
received her Ph.D. from Charles University, where she studied art history. Since 2018, she has been working at the General Headquarters on the National Heritage Institute in Prague where she is the editor in chief of the journal Zprávy památkové péče. In 2019 she joined the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences as a researcher at the Department of Historiography and Theory of Art. Her research focuses on the historiography of Czech art history and heritage conservation during the period of state socialism, with an emphasis on the methodological and theoretical aspects of the examined topics and their interconnection with the ideological and political context of the time. She is co-author of the monograph Století Ústavu pro dějiny umění na Filozofické fakultě Univerzity Karlovy (2020).
Jitka Komendová
is Associate Professor at the Department of Slavonic Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University. She focuses on the history of culture of medieval Rus’ and the history of humanities in Russia in the 20th century. She is the author of the monograph Světec a šaman. Kulturní kontexty ruské středověké legendy (2011), co-author and editor of the collected volume Pismennost’ Galitsko-Volynskogo Kniazhestva: istoriko-philologicheskie issledovaniia (2016), and a number of other studies.
Jiří Macháček
is a Professor of Archaeology specialising in the early Middle Ages and archaeological methodology. He teaches at the Institute of Archaeology and Museology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University. He has been a visiting professor at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg and a Humboldt Foundation fellow at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the Georg August University in Göttingen. His research focuses mainly on the Great Moravian centres such as Pohansko near Břeclav. He is the author, co-author and editor of a number of scientific studies and the principal investigator of numerous national and international research projects.
Andrzej Marzec
is a Professor at Jagiellonian University in Cracow, there he is employed in the Laboratory of Auxiliary Sciences of History at the Institute of History. He deals with the political and social history of late medieval Poland, especially the relations of the political elites with the monarch. As part of his research, he published articles on the genealogy of knightly families. Some of his publications deal with the political and law system of the Kingdom of Poland in the 14th century. He also published a volume of old Polish inscriptions from the area of Przemyśl county, which is now within the borders of Ukraine. Author of the monographs Urzędnicy małopolscy w otoczeniu Władysława Łokietka i Kazimierza Wielkiego, 1305–1370 (2006), and Pod rządami nieobecnego monarchy. Królestwo Polskie, 1370–1382 (second edition 2021).
Martin Nodl
is Research Associate Professor (doc.) at the Centre for Medieval Studies, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague. His main research field comprises late medieval mentalities, social history of the late Middle Ages and history and theory of historical writing. Author of several dozens articles and monographs including Das Kuttenberger Dekret von 1409. Von der Eintracht zum Konflikt der Prager Universitätsnationen (2017), Średniowiecze w nas (2020), Praha 15. století. Konfliktní společenství (2023). Co-editor of more than twenty monographs including Celebrations, Ceremonies and Rituals in the late Middle Ages (together with František Šmahel and Václav Žůrek, 2022), Pre-modern Towns at the Times of Catastrophes East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective (together with Michaela Antonín-Malaníková and Beata Możejko, 2023).
Attila Pók
is a senior researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg, Hungary. He was deputy director of the Institute of History at the Research Centre for Humanities at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest (1996–2018), Secretary General of the Hungarian Historical Association (2007–2015), and Visiting Professor of History at Columbia University in New York (1998–2013). His publications and courses cover three major fields: 19th–20th century European political and intellectual history; history of modern European historiography with special regard to political uses of history and theory; and the methodology of history writing. His works in English include: A Selected Bibliography of Modern Historiography (Bibliographies & Indexes in World History, Number 24, Greenwood Press, New York-Westport, Connecticut-London, 1992); The Politics of Hatred in the Middle of Europe. Scapegoating in Twentieth Century Hungary: History and Historiography (Savaria Books on Politics, Culture and Society; Szombathely: Savaria University Press, 2009).
David Radek
is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Historical Sciences, Silesian University in Opava. He is interested in the medieval and early modern history of Silesia and the lands of the Bohemian Crown, with special emphasis on the history of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He also deals with the history of Silesian princely families, especially the Opole Piast and Opava Přemyslids. In addition to a number of scholarly studies and articles on the subject, he has also published the monograph Bolek V Opolský (okolo 1400–† 1460): Život a legenda (2018).
Tadeusz Paweł Rutkowski
is a historian of modern history, Professor at the University of Warsaw. He specializes in the history of Poland and Eastern Europe in the 20th century, including science policy and the history of historiography. Author of several monographs including Stanisław Kot (1885–1975). Biografia polityczna (2000); Nauki historyczne w Polsce 1944–1970. Zagadnienia politycznej i organizacyjne (2007); Adam Bromberg i “Encyklopedyści”. Kartka z dziejów inteligencji polskiej w PRL (2010); Historia i historycy w PRL. Szkice (2019); Pańska, szlachecka, faszystowska. Polska w sowieckiej propagandzie, kulturze i historiografii 1917– 1945 (2020).
Iurie Stamati
is an Associate Professor at the Université du Québec à Rimouski, and Sessional Lecturer at two other Canadian universities, Laurentian University and Université Laval. Among the courses he teaches are: Marxism Between Theory and Reality; History of Archaeological Thought; Historiography. His research focuses on the political instrumentalization of history and archeology in Eastern Europe, but also on the influence of Marxism and nationalist ideology on history and archeology. He is the author of several articles and of The Slavic Dossier – Medieval Archaeology in the Soviet Republic of Moldova: Between State Propaganda and Scholarly Endeavor (Brill, 2019), and Women Archaeologists under Communism, 1917–1989: Breaking the Glass Ceiling (with Florin Curta, 2021).
Rafał Stobieck
is a Professor at Lodz University, Poland, and Head of the History of Historiography and Auxiliary Historical Sciences department. His main field of interest is the history of modern historical thought in the 19th and 20th centuries. Author of numerous books and articles on Polish and general historiography. Among recent publications are Historiografia PRL. Zamiast podręcznika (2020); “Historio, historio, cóżeś ty za pani”. Eseje historiograficzne (2021).
Gábor Thoroczkay
received his Ph.D. in medieval history from the University of Szeged (2004), where he studied under the supervision of Prof. Gyula Kristó; he obtained his habilitation at Eötvös Loránd University under the supervison of Professor György Székely and Professor Martha Font (2014). He is currently an Associate Professor with Habilitation at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (Institute of History – Department of Medieval History), and head of the doctoral program for medieval Hungarian history. His main fields of scientific interest are Hungarian history in the Árpádian period and Hungarian prehistory.
Przemysław Wiszewski
is a Professor at the University of Wrocław, medievalist and early modernist. His research is focused on heterogenous, medieval societies; multi-ethnicity in the Middle Ages; regions and localities in medieval Central Europe; female religious movements in medieval Central Europe. His latest publications as editor include three volumes in the Cohesion in Multi-Ethnic Societies in Europe series: Legal Norms and Political Action in Multi-Ethnic Societies (III, 2023); Inter-Ethnic Relations and the Functioning of Multi-Ethnic Societies (II, 2022) and Memories in Multi-Ethnic Societies (I, 2020).
Piotr Węcowski
is a Professor at the University of Warsaw since 2021. He is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Studia Źródłoznawcze. Commenationes, and vice president of the Society of Friends History (Warsaw branch of the Polish Historical Society). He is also Corresponding Fellow of the Centre for Medieval Studies (Prague), and foreign member of the Výzkumné centrum Dvory a rezidence ve středověku (Institute of History, CAS, Prague). His research interests include medieval history, auxiliary sciences of history, and history of historiography of the 19th–20th centuries. Author of the books: Działalność publiczna możnowładztwa małopolskiego w czasach panowania Władysława Jagiełły (1998), Mazowsze w Koronie. Propaganda i legitymizacja władzy Kazimierza Jagiellończyka na Mazowszu (2004), Początki Polski w pamięci historycznej późnego średniowiecza (2014).
Martin Wihoda
studied history at the Universities of Brno, Würzburg and Marburg, where he received his Doctorate (1999) and Habilitation (2004). Since April 2010 he is Professor of Medieval History in Brno. Since 2019 he is corresponding member of the Central Directorate of Monumenta Germaniae Historica Munich (Germany). His main research interest is the Europeanization of the gentes settled at the eastern edge of the Roman-German Empire in the early and high Middle Ages. Author of several dozens of articles and monographs, including: Morava v době knížecí: 906–1197 (2010), Die Sizilischen goldenen Bullen von 1212: Kaiser Friedrichs II. Privilegien für die Přemysliden im Erinnerungsdiskurs (2012), Vladislaus Henry: The Formation of Moravian Identity (2015), První česká království (2015). Co-editor of several monographs including: The Fall of Great Moravia: Who Was Buried in Grave H153 at Pohansko Near Břeclav? (together with Jiří Macháček, 2019), Verwandtschaft – Freundschaft – Feindschaft: Politische Bindungen zwischen dem Reich und Ostmitteleuropa in der Zeit Friedrich Barbarossas (together with Knut Görich, 2019).
Dušan Zupka
is an Associate Professor of History at Comenius University in Bratislava. He has previously worked at the History Faculty of 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 (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 centuries) (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 series East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450.