Prof. Dr. Yuriy Zazuliak

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Research interests

• Interconnected and Comparative Histories of premodern Eastern Europe with the focus on Poland-Lithuania and Ukraine
• Violence, Dependency and Slavery
• Religious-Ethnic Boundaries, Law, and Collective Identities in premodern Eastern Europe
• Oral and Written Cultures of premodern Eastern Europe

Curriculum vitae

• May 2024-September 2024: Philip Schwarz Initiative Fellowship, University of Leipzig, Germany.
• 2014-2024: Associate Professor, History Department, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine.
• June 2008: PhD, Medieval Studies Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
• October 2004: PhD (kandydat nauk), National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine.
• June 1999: M. A., Medieval Studies Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
• June 1996: Diploma in History, Ivan Franko State University of Lviv, Ukraine.

Selected publications

• “Lords’ Violence and Peasant Mobility in Fifteenth-Century Red Ruthenia,” in Punishment, Labour and the Legitimation of Power, eds. Adam S. Fagbore, Nabhojeet Sen and Katherine Roscoe (Amsterdam, 2025), 213-236.
• “Abducted Women and Anxious Patriarchs. Abducting of Women and Ambiguities of Noble Honour in Galicia during the Fifteenth Century,” L’Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft, 35, 1: Ukraine, hrsg. Dietlind Hüchtker, Claudia Kraft (2024), 17-33.
• “Ruthenian Peasants, German Law, and Legal Hybridization in 15th-Century Rural Galicia (Red Ruthenia),” Historische Mitteilungen, 33: Ukraine und Ukrainische Geschichte unter Beschuss. Historische Perspektiven im transepochalen und transregionalen Zugriff, hrsg. Stefan Rohdewald (2022), 223-246.
• with Janos M. Bak, “Law and the Administration of Justice”, in The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe, eds. Nada Začević and Daniel Ziemann (Oxford, 2022), 113-130.
• “Niewola chłopska” i „poddaństwo”: konceptualizacja nowożytnego poddaństwa i zależności chłopów galicyjskich we wczesnym okresie rządów Habsburgów i jej polsko-litewskie implikację” [“Niewola chłopska” and “poddaństwo”: Conceptualizing the early modern peasant serfdom and dependency in early Habsburg Galicia and its Polish-Lithuanian Ramifications.], in Z dziejów pojęć społeczno-politycznych w Polsce. XVIII-XX wiek [From the history of the social and political concepts in Poland, 18th-20th cent.], ed. Maciej Janowski (Warszawa: Neriton, 2019), 333-351.
• Landscape, Law, and Memory: Forging the Local Tradition and the Perambulation of Boundaries in the Kingdom of Poland during the 15th and 16th Centuries (CAS Working Paper Series, Issue 9) (Sofia: Center for Advanced Study Sofia, 2017) (open access).
• “A Discipline without a Past: Medieval Studies in Ukraine,” Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU, eds. J. A. Rasson and B. Zsolt Szakács, 15 (2009), 339-353.