Jakub Niedźwiedź
Jakub Niedźwiedź is Professor at the Jagiellonian University (Cracow, Poland) and head of the Chair of Old Polish Literature. He is a specialist in literature and literary communication in late Medieval and early modern Central-Eastern Europe (contemporary Poland, Belorus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Russia, Latvia). He published 90 papers and 3 books about Medieval and Renaissance literature, rhetoric, use of script, history of printing press, neo-Latin literature, emblems, history of reading and writing. He has been the principal investigator in two international research projects financed by the National Science Centre (Poland):
Polish literature and cartography relationships in the 16th and 1st half of the 17th centuries, 2014/15/B/HS2/01104
Polish literary and cultural patterns in the Russian Tsardom at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries: the case of Stefan Jaworski, 2017/25/B/HS2/00932
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4472-8151
Main publications:
Poeta i mapa. Jan Kochanowski a kartografia XVI wieku, Kraków, Wydawnictwo UJ, 2019.
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.
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; The Use of Books in 16th -century Vilnius, „Terminus”, R. XV (2013), 2 (27), pp. 167-84; Humanistyczna mapa Europy Jana Kochanowskiego (Pieśń 24 Ksiąg wtórych), in: Literatura renesansowa w Polsce i Europie. Studia dedykowane Profesorowi Andrzejowi Borowskiemu, ed. J. Niedźwiedź, Cracow, Wydawnictwo UJ, 2016, pp. 251-73; Mercator’s Lithuanian-Russian Borderlands: Russiae pars amplificata (1595) and its Polish Sources, „Imago Mundi”, 2019, 2, pp. 151-172.
