Wojtek Jezierski
About Wojtek Jezierski
Wojtek Jezierski works as a postdoc in medieval history at the Department of Historical Studies, Gothenburg University. He holds an MA in history from Warsaw University (2003) where he also studied social anthropology. In 2010 he defended his PhD in history at Stockholm University. He also had longer research visits at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (2006) and Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau (2011/2012).
Current research
Wojtek's current research has two foci. Firstly, he investigates rituals and patterns of emotions of pagan and Christian communities on the southern shores of the Baltic Sea in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Notions such as 'hostipitality' in encounters between the heathens and missionaries or 'emotional communities' come under scrutiny. Together with Lars Hermanson (Göteborg), Hans Jacob Orning (Oslo), and Thomas Småberg (Malmö) he is preparing an anthology on politics of ritual in medieval Scandinavia.
Wojtek is also pursuing a postdoc project financed by Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) investigating the phenomenology of royal sight, blindness & visibility as instruments of power in Central and Western Europe during the High Middle Ages.
Research interests
Wojtek's research concentrates on a number of issues. In his MA he focused on Anglo-Saxon and German historiographical connections and political uses of history during the tenth century. His PhD investigated the way medieval monasteries, particularly the monastery of St Gall but also others, developed and managed relations of power within their communities during the tenth and eleventh centuries. More precisely he investigated how monastic subjectivities - both individual and collective - were constructed, surveyed, persecuted, and disciplined to suit the monastic demands. Along these issues he examined early medieval and monastic senses of 'public sphere', 'institution', 'the self', 'conduct', and 'power'. Characteristic of his research are borrowings from contemporary sociological and philosophical theories which are worked into and 'tested' on medieval sources. His research has been published in Early Medieval Europe, Frühmittelalterliche Studien, Scandia, and The Medieval Chronicle.
Please visit his site for details and publications: http://gu-se.academia.edu/WojtekJezierski
-
Editors’
Preface
Wojtek Jezierski, Kim Esmark, Hans Jacob Orning, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson
Wojtek Jezierski, Kim Esmark, Hans Jacob Orning, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050-1250 Vol. III: Legitimacy and Glory - 2021-01-01 -
Introduction: Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Legitimacy and
Glory
Wojtek Jezierski
Wojtek Jezierski, Kim Esmark, Hans Jacob Orning, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson (eds.), Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050-1250 Vol. III: Legitimacy and Glory - 2021-01-01 -
Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050-1250. Volume III, Legitimacy and
Glory
Wojtek Jezierski, Kim Esmark, Hans Jacob Orning, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson
- 2021-01-01 -
Sigrid
Storråda
Wojtek Jezierski
SKBL: Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (red. Maria Sjöberg) - 2020-01-01 -
Udomawianie św. Wojciecha. Mitologizacja misjonarstwa i władzy biskupiej w Polsce i w Skandynawii od XI do XIII
w.
Wojtek Jezierski
Roman Michałowski, Grzegorz Pac (eds.), Oryginalność czy wtórność? Studia poświęcone polskiej kulturze politycznej i religijnej (X−XIII wiek) - 2020-01-01 -
Politics of Emotions and Empathy Walls in Thirteenth-Century
Livonia
Wojtek Jezierski
Anu Mänd, Marek Tamm (eds.), Making Livonia: Actors and Networks in the Medieval and Early Modern Baltic Sea Region - 2020-01-01 -
Livonian Hospitality. The ‘Livonian Rhymed Chronicle’ and the Formation of Identities on the Thirteenth-Century Baltic
Frontier
Wojtek Jezierski
Frühmittelalterliche Studien - 2020-01-01 -
Angels in Scandinavia: Papal Legates and Networks of Nordic Elites, Twelfth-Thirteenth
Centuries
Wojtek Jezierski
Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050-1250: Volume II: Social Networks. Kim Esmark, Lars Hermanson, Hans Jacob Orning (eds.) - 2020-01-01 -
Peter K. Andersson, Silent
History
Wojtek Jezierski
Historisk Tidskrift - 2019-01-01 -
ST ADALBERTUS DOMESTICUS. PATTERNS OF MISSIONING AND EPISCOPAL POWER IN POLAND AND SCANDINAVIA IN THE ELEVENTH TO THIRTEENTH
CENTURIES
Wojtek Jezierski
Acta Poloniae Historica - 2019-01-01 -
När blev Sverige
evigt?
Wojtek Jezierski, Thomas Lindkvist, Sari Nauman
Historisk Tidskrift - 2018-01-01 -
Review of: Piotr Górecki, The Text and the World: The Henryków Book, Its Authors, and Their Region, 1160-1310 (New York: Oxford University Press,
2015)
Wojtek Jezierski
Speculum - 2018-01-01 -
Domesticating St Adalbert: Episcopal Power and Holy Husbandry on the European Peripheries during the High Middle
Ages
Wojtek Jezierski
CERGU Working Paper Series - 2018-01-01 -
Feelings during Sieges: Fear, Trust, and Emotional Bonding on the Missionary and Crusader Baltic Rim, 12th – 13th
Centuries
Wojtek Jezierski
Frühmittelalterliche Studien - 2018-01-01 -
Recension av: Helena Bergman, Christian Florin & Jens Ljunggren (red.), Känslornas revolution: Kärlek, ilska och lycka på 1970-talet (Stockholm: Appell förlag,
2017)
Wojtek Jezierski
Historisk Tidskrift - 2018-01-01 -
Recension av: Mats Andrén, Thomas Lindkvist, Ingmar Söhrman and Katharina Vajta (red.), Cultural Borders of Europe: Narratives, Concepts and Practices in the Present and the Past (New York: Berghahn Books,
2017)
Wojtek Jezierski
Historisk Tidskrift - 2018-01-01 -
When did Sweden become
forever?
Wojtek Jezierski, Thomas Lindkvist, Sari Nauman
Historisk Tidskrift - 2018-01-01 -
Review: Will Hasty, The Medieval Risk-Reward Society. Courts, Adventure, and Love in the European Middle Ages (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press,
2016)
Wojtek Jezierski
Medieval Review - 2017-01-01 -
Fears, Sights and Slaughter. Expressions of Fright and Disgust in the Baltic Missionary Historiography (11th-13th
centuries)
Wojtek Jezierski
Tears, Sighs and Laughter. Expressions of Emotions in the Middle Ages, ed. by Per Förnegård, Erika Kihlman, Mia Åkestam, Gunnel Engwall - 2017-01-01 -
Tuotilo and St Gall’s Emotional Community. Monastic Sensations, Sentiments, and Sensibilities (9th–11th
Centuries)
Wojtek Jezierski
Tuotilo: Archäologie eines frühmittelalterlichen Künstlers, ed. by David Ganz, Cornel Dora - 2017-01-01 -
Forms of Social Capital in the European Middle Ages: Angels, Papal Legates, and the Scandinavian Aristocratic Elites, 12th-13th
Centuries
Wojtek Jezierski
CERGU’S WORKING PAPER SERIES - 2017-01-01 -
Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to Fifteenth
Centuries
Wojtek Jezierski, Lars Hermanson
- 2016-01-01 -
Editors’
Preface
Wojtek Jezierski, Lars Hermanson
Imagined communities on the Baltic rim : from the eleventh to fifteenth centuries / Edited by Wojtek Jezierski and Lars Hermanson - 2016-01-01 -
Monografins elände. Om svenska historikers
avhandlingsformer
Wojtek Jezierski
Historisk Tidsskrift - 2016-01-01 -
Introduction: Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, Eleventh–Fifteenth
Centuries
Wojtek Jezierski
in: Wojtek Jezierski, Lars Hermanson (eds.), Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, Eleventh–Fifteenth Centuries - 2016-01-01 -
Risk Societies on the Frontier. Missionary Emotional Communities in Southern Baltic, 11th – 13th
c.
Wojtek Jezierski
in: Wojtek Jezierski, Lars Hermanson (eds.), Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, Eleventh–Fifteenth Centuries - 2016-01-01 -
Convivium in terra horroris: Helmold of Bosau’s Rituals of
Hostipitality
Wojtek Jezierski
Rituals, Performatives, and Political Order in Northern Europe, c. 650–1350 / edited by Wojtek Jezierski, Lars Hermanson, Hans Jacob Orning, Thomas Småberg. - 2015-01-01 -
Kilka uwag o antropologii
historycznej
Christer Winberg, Wojtek Jezierski
Rocznik Antropologii Historii [Anthropology of History Yearbook] - 2015-01-01 -
Speculum monasterii: Ekkehart IV and the making of St Gall’s identity in the Casus sancti Galli-tradition (9th–13th
centuries)
Wojtek Jezierski
"Ekkehart IV. von St. Gallen", ed. by Norbert Kössinger, Elke Krotz, Stephan Müller - 2015-01-01 -
Rituals, Performatives, and Political Order in Northern Europe, c.
650–1350
Wojtek Jezierski, Lars Hermanson, Hans Jacob Orning, Thomas Småberg
- 2015-01-01 -
Jón Viðar Sigurðsson & Thomas Småberg (red.), Friendship and Social Networks in Scandinavia, c. 1000-1800, anm. av Wojtek
Jezierski
Wojtek Jezierski
Historisk Tidskrift - 2015-01-01 -
Oddział zamknięty? Socjologia contra antropologia w badaniach nad średniowiecznym życiem
klasztornym
Wojtek Jezierski
Rocznik Antropologii Historii - 2014-01-01 -
Stefan Jonsson, Crowds and Democracy, anm. av Wojtek
Jezierski
Wojtek Jezierski
Historisk tidskrift - 2014-01-01 -
'Antecessores nostri - locus noster - nostra tempora. Wir-Gefühl in the St Gall Historiographical Tradition (9-13th
Century)'
Wojtek Jezierski
Historia Narrat. Studia Mediewistyczne ofiarowane Profesorowi Jackowi Banaszkiewiczowi - 2012-01-01 -
Verba volant, scripta manent. Limits of Speech, Power of Silence and Logic of Practice in some Monastic Conflicts of the High Middle
Ages
Wojtek Jezierski
Understanding Monastic Practices of Oral Communication (Western Europe, tenth-thirteenth centuries) - 2011-01-01