Dr. Pawel Figurski

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsMedieval History,Roman Catholic Theology
Keywordsstate-formation and peace-building, liturgy (history), political and ethnic identification, Middle Ages, Poland (history)
Honours and awards

2024: "Beyond Canon” Center for Advanced Studies, University of Regensburg, Germany

2022: Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers

2021: The Outstanding Young Academic Award, Ministry of Education and Science, Poland

2019: Postdoctoral Society, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK

2018: International Fellow Award, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster, Germany

Current contact address

CountryPoland
CityWarszawa
InstitutionPolish Academy of Sciences

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Harald BuchingerFakultät für Katholische Theologie, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg
Prof. Dr. Marco PetolettiDipartimento di Studi Medieoevali, Umanistici e Rinascimentali, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2022

Programme(s)

2021Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2025Paweł Figurski: Pope Gregory the Great (d. 604), Bishop Stanisław of Kraków (d. 1079), and the Unbound Rhinoceros. In: Dušan Zupka Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe. Routledge, 2025. ca. 15 pages (forthcoming)
2025Paweł Figurski: Preliminaries on Liturgy in Early and High Medieval Poland: Manuscript Evidence, Scholarship Overview, and Postulates for Future Research. In: Piotr Pranke, Between East and West: One World and Two Empires. Elites, Saints and Kings. Remembering Past and Forgotten Worlds. Routledge, 2025. ca. 15 pages (forthcoming)
2024Paweł Figurski: Henry II versus Bolesław the Brave: War & Peace and its Millennial Remembrance. Vor 1000 Jahren — Menschen(leben) am Hof von Kunigunde und Heinrich II. . Schnell & Steiner, 2024. ca. 5 pages (forthcoming)
2024Paweł Figurski: Medieval Liturgy and the Making of Poland. A Study in Early Medieval Political Identification (c. 960s—c. 1030s). In: Journal of Medieval History, 50, 2024, 141-162
2024Paweł Figurski: Nieznany przekaz tekstu Gaude Mater Polonia w odnalezionym fragmencie z Płocka. In: Muzyka, 69, 2024, ca. 15 pages (forthcoming)
2024Paweł Figurski Review of: Lawrence Nees, Frankish Manuscripts: The Seventh to the Tenth Century (Turnhout: Brepols, 2022) . In: Kwartalnik Historyczny, 131, 2024, ca. 5 pages (forthcoming)
2024Paweł Figurski: W poszukiwaniu ceremoniału koronacyjnego z 1025 roku: rekonstrukcja rytuału i jego symboliki. Katalog Wystawy z okazji tysiąclecia pierwszych polskich koronacji. Muzeum Historii Polski, 2024. ca. 20 pages (forthcoming)
2023Paweł Figurski: Liturgy, Iconography, and Sacramental Kingship in the Ottonian & Salian Monastery of St Emmeram. Case Studies of the Politica Theologia Prima. In: Harald Buchinger, David Hiley, Katelijne Schiltz St. Emmeram: Liturgie und Musik vom Mittelalter bis zur Frühen Neuzeit. Schnell & Steiner, 2023. 69-104