Prof. Jakub Niedźwiedź

Jagiellonian University, Cracow (Poland)

ul. Gołębia 16

31-007 Kraków, Poland

Phone: +48 12 663 14 20 Email: jakub.niedzwiedz@uj.edu.pl

Head of the Chair of Old Polish Literature at Jagiellonian University, Cracow. A member of the Accademia Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy; Renaissance Society of America, and the Polish Society of the Researchers of the 17th Century. A member of the editorial board of the "Rocznik Lituanistyczny".

Research interests: history of early modern European literature (especially Polish, Ukrainian and neo-Latin); politics of memory in East-Central Europe; history of cartography, writing and book; editing of literary sources, emblem studies.

Current projects:

1. Polish literary and cultural patterns in the Russian Tsardom at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries: the case of Stefan Jaworski

2. Polyphony of the Map: Mapping of Muscovy in the 16th century and the Map of Anton Wied (1542, 1555)

Main publications

Books

J. Niedźwiedź, K. Łopatecki, G. Franczak, The Mapping of a Russian War: The Atlas of the Principality of Polatsk by Stanisław Pachołowiecki (1580), Brill 2025 (Mapping the Past, Volume: 5)

Stefan Javors'kyj's Panegyrics, ed. Jakub Niedźwiedź, Bartosz B. Awianowicz, Introduction by Jakub Niedźwiedź, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2025.

Stefan Javors'kyj's Sermons, ed. Giovanna Brogi, Maksym Yaremenko, Tetiana Kuzyk, Marzanna Kuczyńska, Jakub Niedźwiedź, Bartosz B. Awianowicz, Introduction by Marzanna Kuczyńska, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2025.

Literacy in Medieval and Early Modern Vilnius: Forms of Writing and Rhetorical Spaces in the City, Turnhout: Brepols, 2023;

Poeta i mapa. Jan Kochanowski a kartografia XVI wieku, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2019;

Dwa kazania wygłoszone po śmierci Katarzyny Habsburżanki i Zygmunta III Wazy, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Sub Lupa, 2016;

Kultura literacka Wilna (1323-1655). Retoryczna organizacja miasta, Kraków, Universitas, 2012;

M. Mieleszko, Emblematy, ed. R. Grześkowiak, J. Niedźwiedź, Warsaw, Neriton, 2010;

Nieśmiertelne teatra sławy. Teoria i praktyka twórczości panegirycznej na Litwie w XVII-XVIII w., Cracow, Księgarnia Akademicka, 2003.

Selected papers

1. Jagiellonian Epithalamia and New Geographical Knowledge, “Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie”, 76,2 (2020), pp. 339–370.

2. Cyrillic and Latin Script in Late Medieval Vilnius, in: Uses of the Written Word in Medieval Towns. Medieval Urban Literacy II, ed. M. Mostert, A. Adamska, Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2014, pp. 99-116;

3. Jesuit Education in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1565–1773), „Journal of Jesuit Studies”, 5 (2018), 3, s. 441–455, doi 10.1163/22141332-00503006 (SCOPUS)

4. Multiscripturality in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: New Research Approaches, transl. D.A. Frick, „East European Politics and Societies and Cultures”, 33, 2019, s. 3–16, doi 10.1177/0888325418807284.

5. A Lithuanian Nobleman’s Mapping of Poland: The Itinerary of a Peregrination by Stanisław Samuel Szemiot (1680), w: Social and Cultural Relations in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Microhistories, ed. R. Butterwick, W. Pawlikowska, New York-London: Routledge, 2019, s. 205–216.

6. Mercator’s Lithuanian-Russian Borderlands: Russiae pars amplificata (1595) and its Polish Sources, „Imago Mundi”, 2019, 2.