Associate Professor at the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw.
Paweł Żmudzki completed his PhD (1999) and habilitation (2010) in history at the University of Warsaw. His habilitation is a comparative study of medieval narratives about princes, warlords, wars and warriors in Poland, Rus’ and all medieval Europe. His research interests include medieval historiography.
His most important publications include:
- Władca i wojownicy. Narracje o wodzach, drużynie i wojnach w najdawniejszej historiografii Polski i Rusi, Wrocław 2009
- Studium podzielonego królestwa. Książę Leszek Czarny, Warszawa 2000
- New Versions of the Tales of Gallus Anonymus in the Chronicle of Master Vincentius, transl. M. Hamerski, „Acta Poloniae Historica”, 2015, 112, Studies on Medieval Historiography, pp. 141-157.
- Vincentius’s Construct of a Nation: Poland as res publica, transl. D. von Güttner-Sporzyński [in:] Writing History in Medieval Poland: Bishop Vincentius of Cracow and the Chronica Polonorum, ed. D. von Güttner-Sporzyński, (Cursor Mundi 28), Brepols, Turnhout 2017, pp. 175-197.
- A short history of interpreting The Polish Chronicle of Gallus Anonymus, [in:] The First / The Oldest in the Collections of the National Library of Poland, ed. M. Sosnowski, Warszawa 2019, pp. 306-316.
- with Janusz Ostrowski: Kidney diseases in the mediaeval work „Michi Competit” by Thomas of Wrocław, „Archives of Hellenic Medicine”, 2020, vol. 37, supplement 2, pp. 47-52.