Associate Professor at the Department of History of Culture, Faculty of Culture and Arts, University of Warsaw.
Previously (1999–2020) Jerzy Pysiak was Associate Professor at the Department of Medieval History, Institute of History, University of Warsaw. As a partner in the Polish ELITES team, he will work on the episcopal power in the period of the Gregorian reform, and the involvement of the bishops in political conflicts in the context of the legitimization of the elites in Poland and Norway.
He completed his PhD at the Institute of History, University of Warsaw (1999) with a thesis „The Capetian Kingship between the Myth, the Sacred, and the History. The Royal Historiography under the Reign of Philip Augustus”. In 2013 Pysiak completed his Habilitation Post-Doctoral Degree with a dissertation „The King and the Crown of Thorns. Kingship and the Cult of Relics in Capetian France” (Editions of the University of Warsaw 2012). The book received the Prime Minister’s Award (2014), and its English version by Peter Lang is forthcoming.
Pysiak’s research interests include the medieval French and West-European kingship and the royal ideology, hagiography and the cult of Saints and relics in Capetian France and in medieval Western Europe, and medieval historiography.
His most important publications include:
- The King and the Crown of Thorns. Kingship and the Cult of Relics in Capetian France, Peter Lang 2021
- Królewski kult Korony Cierniowej we Francji Ludwika Świętego, „Roczniki Historyczne”, t.67, 2001, s.7-28 (Nagroda im. Aleksandra Gieysztora 2002)
- Sakralizacja władzy królewskiej w ideologii monarchicznej Kapetyngów w XII-XIV wieku, in: Monarchia w średniowieczu. Władza nad ludźmi, władza nad terytorium. Studia ofiarowane Profesorowi Henrykowi Samsonowiczowi, J. Pysiak, A.Pieniądz-Skrzypczak, M.R.Pauk (co-edition), Warszawa-Kraków 2002, p. 251-286
- Philippe Auguste – roi de la fin des temps?, „Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales”, v. 57; n. 5/2002, p.1165-1189
- Die heidnische Vergangenheit der Franken in der Geschichtsschreibung der Kapetinger zur Zeit Philipp Augusts und Ludwigs des Heiligen, w: Die Hofgeschichtsschreibung im mittelalterlichen Europa. Dziejopisarstwo dworskie w średniowiecznej Europie, Toruń 2006, p. 73-92
- The Monarch’s Gesture and Visualisation of Rituals Associated with the Cult of Relics, „Acta Poloniae Historica”, v. 96 (2/2007), p. 23-55
- Polityczne aspekty kultu świętego Olafa i relikwii Korony Cierniowej w norweskim konflikcie gregoriańskim (druga połowa XII – początek XIV wieku), w: Świat średniowiecza. Studia ofiarowane Profesorowi Henrykowi Samsonowiczowi, A. Bartoszewicz, G. Myśliwski, J. Pysiak, P. Żmudzki (co-edition), Warszawa 2010, p. 526-553
Les origines de la légende de la translation des reliques de la Couronne d’Epines en Occident par Charlemagne, w: Hagiographie, idéologie et politique au Moyen Age en Occident par Charlemagne. Actes du colloque international du Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale de Poitiers, 11-14 septembre 2008, wyd. E. Bozóky, Collection Hagiologia. Études sur la Sainteté en Occident – Studies on Western Sainthood, t. VIII, Brepols, Turnhout 2012, p. 477-501