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Wojtek Jezierski
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Department of Historical StudiesAbout Wojtek Jezierski
About me
I am Professor of history at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg since 2024. I defended my PhD thesis at Stockholm University in 2010 and in 2016 I became Associate Professor at the University of Gothenburg.
I have published two monographs and co-edited seven anthologies.
Academic interests
My research has focused on power and discipline in medieval monasteries, history of emotions, hospitality and hostility in cultural encounters, conceptualizations of risk among medieval missionaries and crusaders, legitimization of elites, and cults of saints on European peripheries, particularly on the Baltic Rim. I have keen interest in theory, method, and political anthropology as well as interdisciplinary approaches in medieval studies.
I defended my thesis on power relations, surveillance and social control in early medieval monasteries in the German Empire: Total St Gall: Medieval Monastery as a Disciplinary Institution (AUS 2010).
Between 2011 and 2022, I worked in a series of externally funded projects focusing on emotions and experiences of risk and uncertainty among missionaries, crusaders, and on cultural encounters and intercultural hospitality between Christians and the local ‘pagan’ and converted communities in the Baltic Sea region between the 11th and 14th centuries. These studies resulted in two anthologies Rituals, Performatives, and Political Order in Northern Europe, c. 650–1350 (Brepols 2015) and Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries (Amsterdam University Press 2016). I also published a monograph on this topic: Risk, Emotions, and Hospitality in the Christianization of the Baltic Rim, 1000-1300 (Brepols 2022)
Between 2017 and 2021, I was a member and editor of an international project investigating the emergence and legitimisation of Scandinavian elites in the High Middle Ages. The project resulted in an anthology Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume III: Legitimacy and Glory (Routledge 2021).
Between 2018 and 2022, I worked as a researcher at Södertörn University and led an externally funded project Baltic Hospitality: Receiving Strangers/Providing Security on the Northern European Littoral, c. 1000-1900, which investigated the reception of strangers in the Baltic Sea region over 1000 years. The results were published as an anthology Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century: Receiving Strangers in Northeastern Europe (Palgrave 2022)
Between 2021 and 2024 I worked as a researcher at the University of Oslo, leading a comparative project Symbolic Resources and Political Structures on the Periphery: Legitimization of the Elites in Poland and Norway, c. 1000-1300 with international funding from the National Science Centre, Poland and the Norwegian Research Council. The results of the project were published in two anthologies: Languages of Power and Elite Legitimisation in Poland and Norway, 1000–1300, a special issue of the journal Acta Poloniae Historica 129 (2024) and Legitimization of Elites in Poland and Norway in the High Middle Ages: Comparative Studies (Brepols 2025).
Between 2021 and 2024, I led an externally funded international project Ambiguities of Hospitality: Intercultural Integration and Conflict in Host-Guest Relations on the European Borderlands, c. 1000-1350 at the Centre for Medieval Studies at Stockholm University and at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg. The results from the project were published in the anthology Guests, Strangers, Aliens, Enemies: Ambiguities of Hospitality in the Middle Ages, c. 1000–1350 (Brepols 2025).
Current projects and appointments:
At the moment I am conducting research in my own project The Domestication of the Holy Man: A Comparative Study of Heroization, Estrangement, and Sacralization of St Adalbert in the High Middle Ages with external funding from the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. In autumn 2025 and spring 2026 I am on a year-long research sabbatical.
Previous appointments:
I have previously worked at the Stockholm University, University of Oslo, Södertörn University, and Örebro University. I have had longer research visits at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, at Deutsches Historisches Institut (Warsaw), and at the Institut für Mittelalterforschung (IMAFO) der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Vienna).
My research foci
- Comparative history
- Cultural encounters in the Middle Ages
- Missioning and crusading in the Baltic Sea region
- History of hospitality and emotions
- Legitimization of political elites
- Discipline, power, and social control in medieval monasteries
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Kontrareplik: Förtydliganden och reflektioner kring fältets
särart
Wojtek Jezierski
HISTORISK TIDSKRIFT - 2025 -
Medeltida eliter, gästabud och
makt
Wojtek Jezierski, Lisa Haeger
Matarvspodden - 2025 -
Guests, Strangers, Aliens, Enemies: Ambiguities of Hospitality in the Middle Ages, c.
1000–1350
Wojtek Jezierski, Lars Kjaer
2025 -
Guests – Strangers – Aliens – Enemies: Introducing Ambiguities of Hospitality in the Middle Ages, c.
1000–1350
Wojtek Jezierski, Lars Kjaer
Guests, Strangers, Aliens, Enemies: Ambiguities of Hospitality in the Middle Ages, c. 1000-1350, eds. Wojtek Jezierski, Lars Kjaer - 2025 -
Dark Delights: From Metaphors of Feast- Like Battles to Ambiguities of Hospitality in the Latin Middle
Ages
Wojtek Jezierski
Guests, Strangers, Aliens, Enemies: Ambiguities of Hospitality in the Middle Ages, c. 1000-1350, red. Wojtek Jezierski, Lars Kjaer (Turnhout: Brepols, 2025) - 2025 -
Fientlig gästvänlighet: Paris, den 6 januari
1378
Wojtek Jezierski
Historisk tidskrift - 2024 -
Feasting and Elite Legitimisation in Poland and Norway: Propaganda, Political Economy, and Recognition in a Comparative Perspective,
1000–1300
Wojtek Jezierski, Paweł Żmudzki
Acta Poloniae Historica - 2024 -
Introduction: languages of power and elite legitimisation on the periphery, Poland, and Norway,
1000–1300
Wojtek Jezierski, Hans Jacob Orning, Grzegorz Pac
Acta Poloniae Historica - 2024 -
Writing a compilation thesis in history: The challenges and opportunities for students and
faculty
Wojtek Jezierski, Sari Nauman
HISTORISK TIDSKRIFT - 2024 -
St Adalbert as a stranger-king: The heroization and estrangement of a holy man in the Middle
Ages
Wojtek Jezierski
History and Anthropology - 2023 -
Sweden, Inc.: Temporal Sovereignty of the Realm and People from the Middle Ages to
Modernity
Wojtek Jezierski, Sari Nauman, Thomas Lindkvist, Biörn Tjällén
Scandinavian Studies - 2022 -
Recension av: Sven Rosborn (med bidrag av Tomas Sielski), Vikingakungens guldskatt: Om upptäckten av ett unikt manuskript, kung Harald Blåtands grav och placeringen av fästet Jomsborg (Malmö
2021)
Kurt Villads Jensen, Wojtek Jezierski
Fornvännen - 2022 -
Spaces of Hospitality on the Missionary Baltic Rim, Tenth–Twelfth
Centuries
Wojtek Jezierski
Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century: Receiving Strangers in Northeastern Europe, ed. Sari Nauman, Wojtek Jezierski, Christina Reimann, Leif Runefelt - 2022 -
Ritualer och symbolisk
kommunikation
Wojtek Jezierski, Lars Hermanson
Teori i historisk praktik, red. Sari Nauman, Martin Dackling - 2022 -
Risk, Emotions and Hospitality in the Christianization of the Baltic Rim,
1000-1300
Wojtek Jezierski
2022 -
Introduction: Baltic Hospitality, 1000 -
1900
Wojtek Jezierski, Sari Nauman, Christina Reimann, Leif Runefelt
Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century: Receiving Strangers in Northeastern Europe / Sari Nauman, Wojtek Jezierski, Christina Reimann, Leif Runefelt (eds.) - 2022 -
Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century: Receiving Strangers in Northeastern
Europe
Sari Nauman, Wojtek Jezierski, Christina Reimann, Leif Runefelt
2022 -
Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050-1250. Volume III, Legitimacy and
Glory
Wojtek Jezierski, Kim Esmark, Hans Jacob Orning, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson
2021 -
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 -
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 -
Livonian Hospitality. The ‘Livonian Rhymed Chronicle’ and the Formation of Identities on the Thirteenth-Century Baltic
Frontier
Wojtek Jezierski
Frühmittelalterliche Studien - 2020 -
Sigrid
Storråda
Wojtek Jezierski
SKBL: Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (red. Maria Sjöberg) - 2020 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Peter K. Andersson, Silent
History
Wojtek Jezierski
Historisk Tidskrift - 2019 -
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 -
När blev Sverige
evigt?
Wojtek Jezierski, Thomas Lindkvist, Sari Nauman
Historisk Tidskrift - 2018 -
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 -
Domesticating St Adalbert: Episcopal Power and Holy Husbandry on the European Peripheries during the High Middle
Ages
Wojtek Jezierski
CERGU Working Paper Series - 2018 -
Feelings during Sieges: Fear, Trust, and Emotional Bonding on the Missionary and Crusader Baltic Rim, 12th – 13th
Centuries
Wojtek Jezierski
Frühmittelalterliche Studien - 2018 -
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 -
When did Sweden become
forever?
Wojtek Jezierski, Thomas Lindkvist, Sari Nauman
Historisk Tidskrift - 2018 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Monografins elände. Om svenska historikers
avhandlingsformer
Wojtek Jezierski
Historisk Tidsskrift - 2016 -
Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to Fifteenth
Centuries
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Kilka uwag o antropologii
historycznej
Christer Winberg, Wojtek Jezierski
Rocznik Antropologii Historii [Anthropology of History Yearbook] - 2015 -
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 -
Rituals, Performatives, and Political Order in Northern Europe, c.
650–1350
Wojtek Jezierski, Lars Hermanson, Hans Jacob Orning, Thomas Småberg
2015 -
Jón Viðar Sigurðsson & Thomas Småberg (red.), Friendship and Social Networks in Scandinavia, c. 1000-1800, anm. av Wojtek
Jezierski
Wojtek Jezierski
Historisk Tidskrift - 2015 -
Oddział zamknięty? Socjologia contra antropologia w badaniach nad średniowiecznym życiem
klasztornym
Wojtek Jezierski
Rocznik Antropologii Historii - 2014 -
Stefan Jonsson, Crowds and Democracy, anm. av Wojtek
Jezierski
Wojtek Jezierski
Historisk tidskrift - 2014
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