Professor Paweł Janiszewski

Biography

Master’s thesis: 1992 (UW), Ph: (1998), Habilitation: 2007 (UW), University Prof: 2019 (UW). Employed at the Historical Institute of UW since 1998 /from 2020 Department of History of UW.
Research interests: ancient history – Roman Empire era, especially religions, intellectual movements, philosophy and historiography of that era.

Most important publications

Panthera – ojciec Jezusa. Geneza idei, antyczne przekazy, późniejsze polemiki

Mroczna Selene. Magiczny rytuał sprowadzania księżyca z niebios w epoce antycznej

Afrodyta Urania. Fizyczne, mistyczne i teurgiczne teofanie Niebiańskiej Bogini w czasach późnego antyku (relacje i asocjacje)

The Missing Link: Greek Pagan Historiography in the Second Half of the Third Century and in the Fourth Century AD

Most important scholarly articles

P. Janiszewski, „Why can’t we see demons? The Evagrian concept of the structure of bodies originating from three parallel material worlds, in the context of Aristotelian quality theory”, Palamedes 3 (2008), 189 -207.
P. Janiszewski „Spuma lunaris. Bringing the moon down to earth, extraction of ‘moon foam’ and its use in ancient magic”, Palamedes 12 (2017/2018), 37 – 59.

Current scholarly projects

The missing link. The lost Latin historiography of the late Roman empire (3rd-5th century)