Dr Paweł Rutkowski

Welcome to My Web Page Academic interests Classes in the semester Duty hours in the semester Publications Forthcoming publications Translations Conference participation Courses

Academic interests:

• Medieval and early modern culture in Europe and England.
• History of magic and witchcraft.
• Utopianism.
• History of religion in Britain.
• History and culture of Great Britain after 1945.

Classes in the summer semester 2007/2008:

• Course 3301-KB2405 "Religious Movements in England from the year 1689" to the present - Thursday 16.45-18.15, room 225.
• Course 3301-KB247 "Everyday Life in Elizabethan England" - Thursday 18.30-20.00, room 225.
• Course 3301-KB140 "British Institutions" - Friday 8.00-9.30, room 225.
• Course 3301-KB140 "British Institutions" - Friday 10.00-11.30, room 225.
• Course 3301-KB140 "British Institutions" - Friday 12.00-13.30, room 225.
• Course 3301-ZKB246 "Religious Movements in England from the Middle Ages to the present" - Saturday 15.15-17.30, room 225 (extramural studies).
• Course 3301-ZKB247 "Everyday Life in Elizabethan England" - Saturday 17.45-20.00, room 225 (extramural studies).

Duty hours in the summer semester 2007/2008:

• Friday 13.30-15.00, room 410.

Publications:

1. "The Taming of the Fiend", Anglica (1997), pp. 39-52.
2. "Utopia in Motion: Vienna in Measure for Measure as Perfect (?) Moral Commonwealth", Anglica, 8 (1998), pp. 53-60.
3. " 'There is a certayne Godlie powre unknowen ... ': Abstract and Impersonal God in Utopia by Thomas More", PASE Papers in Literature, Language and Culture. Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English (Puławy 1997), Lublin, 1998, pp. 339-347.
4. "Science and Religion in Sir Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis", PASE Papers in Literature, Language and Culture. Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English (Szczyrk 1998)).
5. "Polityczne korzenie Utopii Tomasza Morusa", Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce, Vol. XLV, 2001, pp. 33-44.
6. "Europe in the Face of Turkish Menace in Sir Thomas More's Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation", Anglica, 12 (2002), pp. 69-76.
7. "Qualified Tolerance, or Atheists and Zealots in Thomas More's Utopia", PASE Papers in Literature, Language and Culture. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English (Kraków 2001), Kraków, 2002, pp. 163-68.
8. "Państwowy antykatolicyzm w elżbietańskiej Anglii", Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce, Vol. XLVI, 2002.
9. "Znikające miasto: Metamorfoza Londynu w oczach elżbietańskiego antykwariusza", Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce, Vol. XLVII, 2003, pp. 117-28.
10. "Henry Neville's The Isle of Pines: A Pornotopia Or New Eden?", Acta Philologica, 29, 2004, pp. 21-26.
11. "Świat przestępczy elżbietańskiego Londynu: reportaże kryminalne Roberta Greene'a", Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce, Vol. XLIX, 2005, pp. 137-47.

Forthcoming publications:

1. "Poland and Britain against the Ottoman Turks: Jerzy Ossoliński's Embassy to King James I in 1621", in the conference volume Britain and Poland-Lithuania: Contact and Comparison from the Middle Ages to 1795.
2. "Szkodliwe, jadowite, żarłoczne ... : Zwierzęta jako zagrożenie w XVI- i XVII-wiecznej Anglii. Wybrane przykłady", Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce, Vol. LI, 2007.
3. "Witches, Demoniacs and Ghosts: John Wesley's Methodism in defence of Real Christianity", in the conference volume "From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria: Readings in 18th and 19th Century British Literature and Culture, Warsaw 17-19 October, 2007".

Translations:

1. Andrzej Janeczek, "Town and Country in the Polish Commonwealth, 1350-1650" [trans. by P. Rutkowski and S.R. Epstein], in: Town and Country in Europe, 1300-1800, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
2. Irena Turnau, "Hand-felting in Europe and Asia from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century" [trans. by Paweł Rutkowski and Izabela Szymańska], Institute of Archeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Science, Warszawa 1997.

Conference participation:

1. The 6th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Puławy, April 1997.
2. The 7th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Szczyrk, May 1997.
3. The University of Łódź Conference "Dissolving the Boundaries", Łódź, April 1998.
4. The 8th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Wrocław, May 1999.
5. The 10th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Kraków, May 2001.
6. The 11th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Kazimierz Dolny, April 2002.
7. The 3rd International Tudor Symposium Conference "Writing and Reform in Sixteenth-Century England", Newcastle-upon-Tyne, September 2002.
8. The 12th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Miedzeszyn, April 2003 (Organizing Committee).
9. The International Conference "Faustus Socinus and His Heritage", Kraków-Lusławice, September 2004.
10. The International Conference "Britain and Poland-Lithuania - Contact and Comparison from the Middle Ages to 1795", The Jagiellonian University, Cracow, 15-18 September 2005.
11. The International Conference "From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria: Readings in 18th and 19th Century British Literature and Culture, Warsaw 17-19 October, 2007".

Courses:

1. Course 3301-KB140 "British Institutions".
2. Course 3301-KB1404 "Introduction to Social History: English Utopian Views".
3. Course 3301-ZKB246 "Religious Movements in England from the Middle Ages to the Present".
4. Course 3301-KB247 "Everyday Life in Renaissance England".
5. Course 3301-ZKB247 "Everyday Life in Renaissance England".
6. Course 3301-KB2404 "Religious Movements in England from the Middle Ages to the Year 1689".
7. Course 3301-KB2405 "Religious Movements in England from the Year 1689 to the Present".