Address: Instytut Historii UMCS

                20-031 Lublin, Pl. M. Curie-Skłodowskiej 4a

E-mail: a.pleszczynski@poczta.umcs.lublin.pl

Research Interests

Medieval history, especially the ideology of power recorded in texts and images. I am interested in the problem of opinions about peoples/nations in the Middle Ages and their modern time continuity.

My current work focuses on the formation of social group identity in medieval and modern times. I also try to find links between the old myths, stereotypes and prejudices and contemporary popular opinions about the characteristics, values of people and their social roles that they are supposed to fulfill.

Key Publications

Imagined Communities. Constructing Collective Identities in Medieval Europe, ed. in cooperation with J. Sobiesiak, M. Tomaszek, P. Tyszka, Leiden-Boston 2018

Die polnische Öffentlichkeit im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert gegenüber den preuβischen Initiativen zur Verherrlichung Friedrichs I. Barbarossa, in: Friedrich Barbarossa in den Nationalgeschichten Deutschlands und Ostmiteleuropas (19-20. Jh.), ed. K. Görich, M. Wihoda, Köln-Weimar-Wien 2017, pp. 47-62

Die Taufe Polens – das Jahr 966, in: Religiöse Erinnerungsorte in Ostmitteleuropa. Konstitution und Konkurrenz im nationen- und epochenübergreifenden Zugriff, ed. J. Bahlcke, S. Rohdewald, Th. Wünsch, Berlin 2013, pp. 795-803

The Struggle for power in Suzdal-Vladimir Rus’ in 1252 according to the author of ‘The Life of Alexander Nevsky’, in: Violence or Consensus? Birth of States in Medieval Northern and Eastern Central Europe, ed. Sławomir Moździch, Przemysław Wiszewski, Wrocław 2013 (Inerdisciplinary Medieval Studies, ed. S. Moździch, P. Wiszewski, vol 1), pp. 219-229.

Zur Geschichte und Bedeutung der Stiftung des Klarissenkloster in Zawichist, in: Monarchische und adlige Sakralstiftungen im mittelalterlichen Polen, ed. Eduard Mühle, Berlin 2013, pp. 395-416.

The Birth of a Stereotype. Polish Rulers and their Country in German Writings c. 1000 A.D. , Boston-Leiden 2011

Das Reich und das Verhältnis des Piastenstaates zu ihm im Urteil der Chronik des sogenannten Gallus Anonymus, „Frühmittelalterliche Studien“, 43, pp. 297-314

The Symbolic Meaning of the Scabbard Decoration of the Reich Sword (c. 1070), in: Moc a jeji symbolika v středověku, ed. M. Nodl, A. Pleszczyński, Praha 2011, pp. 127-136