Polish Netflix has recently produced widely acclaimed comedy series entitled “1670”, satirically presenting contemporary Polish society in historical costume of the seventeenth century (trailer in English is available HERE). Opening, however, is a compilation of artworks that do not date back to the 17th century, but have been taken from…
Article on medieval bathing in JSTOR Daily
It is my pleasure to announce that my article “Scrub-a-Dub in a Medieval Tub”, telling about the medieval hygene and fighting a myth of the Middle Ages as an epoch of dirt, has just been published in JSTOR Daily: https://daily.jstor.org/scrub-a-dub-in-a-medieval-tub/ JSTOR Daily is a daily magazine that contextualizes current events…
Cleaning Up the Dirty Middle Ages
One of the most irritating misconceptions about the Middle Ages is that people back then bathed once a year or so – it is a myth I keep fighting. I am very happy to say that recently my article on this subject has been published by JSTOR Daily (available HERE)….
Lecture (in Polish) at the National Museum in Poznań
On December 9, 2023 at 11 a.m. I will present a lecture „Średniowiecze: bardziej współczesne niż nam się wydaje!” (“Middle Ages: more contemporary than it may seem!” – in Polish) at the National Museum in Poznań. It is an event accompanying an exhibition “Powiadacze. Dialog między sztuką współczesną a średniowieczną”,…
Paper on joint ARIAH-RIHA seminar in London
Each year members of RIHA (the International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art, founded 1998 in Paris) meet at the General Assembly, which is often combined with annual meeting of RIHA Journal editors. 25th General Assembly was hosted by the Courtauld Institute of Art in London (on…