Assistant Matea Jurić Matulić Attends Research Training in Warsaw

From Sunday, 18 May to Friday, 30 May 2025, doctoral candidate Matea Jurić Matulić, mag. hist., participated in a research training programme at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (UKSW) as part of the project Topography of Medieval Zagreb County (14th–16th Century) (IP-2020-02-8706).

Under the mentorship of Rev. Prof. Waldemar Graczyk, Head of the Institute of History, and Dr Bartłomiej Dźwigała, Jurić Matulić took part in a series of academic activities. As part of the programme, she gave a public lecture titled "From Names to Narratives: The Role of Onomastics in Reconstructing Late Medieval Slavonian History", presenting to undergraduate students and other attendees the potential of interdisciplinary historical research, particularly through historical anthroponymy and toponymy, and the study of local rural communities at a micro level.

She also attended several of Dr Dźwigała’s lectures, where she shared her experience in teaching and discussed her applied didactic methods. During general medieval history classes, she spoke about early Croatian history, placing emphasis on the earliest periods and theories of Croatian origins.

During her stay, she conducted research in the UKSW University Library, analysing historical sources using the method of historical anthroponymy. These included:

Le cartulaire du chapitre du Saint-Sépulchre de Jérusalem (ed. Bresc-Bautier, Paris, 1984),

Inwentarz dóbr stołowych biskupstwa włocławskiego (ed. L. Żytkowicz, Toruń, 1950),

Inwentarz dóbr i dochodów biskupów poznańskich z roku 1564 (ed. W. Długopolski, Kraków, 1938).

She also reviewed secondary literature related to these historical records.

Finally, she participated in field research in the Mazovian Voivodeship, visiting the towns of Pułtusk and Serock, important sites in Polish medieval and early modern history. The fieldwork included visits to the 15th-century Basilica of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the 16th-century Jesuit Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Pułtusk, as well as the 16th-century fortified Church of the Annunciation in Serock. During these visits, Jurić Matulić shared experiences from similar research activities in Croatia and performed a comparative analysis of the visited sites with those from the medieval Zagreb County region.