When I started the project in late 2018, I could not have imagined that academic research might resemble the stories known from the adventurous movies. At times, I felt like Indiana Jones traveling to the most remote though picturesque sites, where Polish medieval manuscripts remain in the forgotten monasteries, the Read more…
This volume is an outcome of multiyear cooperation within PSALM-Network, which stands for Politics, Society, and Liturgy in the Middle Ages. PSALM is the academic society that explicitly intends to bring together scholars who usually do not confer at the same venues and to offer a locus of debate and Read more…
In the next 5 minutes, I will share with you some of the results of my current project, fully entitled: “Neglected Sources. A Socio-Political History of medieval Poland Based on Liturgical Manuscripts.” My overarching goal is to integrate a hitherto marginalized type of historical source, namely the books used during Read more…
…with many thanks to Henry Parkes who in 2017 raised my attention to this manuscript! Once regarded as another Polish manuscript lost during World War 2, the twelfth-century Ms. 883 is still today an ample witness of the intense interconnection between the Holy Roman Empire and the Piast realms—the most Read more…