Dr Katarzyna Kosior

Assistant Professor

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

Katarzyna joined the department as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in September 2018, after completing her PhD at the University of Southampton in 2017. She works on the early modern history of Europe, particularly Poland-Lithuania and France, focusing on royal courts, ceremony, gender and transnational politics. She has published on queenship and ceremony in sixteenth-century Poland-Lithuania and France and on the Polish-Lithuanian kingship and court.

Campus Address

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Lipman

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Key Publications

Transcultural Things and the Spectre of Orientalism in Early Modern Poland–Lithuania, by Tomasz Grusiecki (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023; pp. 264. £85)., Kosior, K. 23 Apr 2025, In: The English Historical Review
Sharing Political Space: The Royal Court and the Polish-Lithuanian Sejm in the Seventeenth Century, Kosior, K. Jul 2025, In: European History Quarterly
Dressing a Picture, Kosior, K. 2 Sep 2021, In: Court Historian
Henry Valois’ Court and Elective Kingship in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1573-1574, Kosior, K. 1 Sep 2021, In: Historical Journal
First Meetings of Early Modern Royal Couples in Poland, France, and England: Protocol, Ceremony, and Emotion, Kosior, K. 2020, In: Zeitschrift fuer Slavische Philologie
Introduction: Between Creative Imagination and Political Reality: Literary Representations of Royal Weddings from Renaissance Poland and Beyond, Kosior, K., Rutz, M. 2020, In: Zeitschrift fuer Slavische Philologie
Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe: East and West, Kosior, K. 2019
Anna Jagiellon: A Female Political Figure in the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Kosior, K. Sep 2018, A Companion to Global Queenship, Amsterdam University Press
Bona Sforza and the Realpolitik of Queenly Counsel in Sixteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania, Kosior, K. 16 Aug 2018, Queenship and Counsel in Early Modern Europe, Palgrave Macmillan
Outlander, Baby Killer, Poisoner? Rethinking Bona Sforza’s Black Legend, Kosior, K. 2016, Virtuous or Villainess? The Image of the Royal Mother from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern Eras, Palgrave Macmillan

PGR Supervision

Lucy Allan Piety and Patriarchy: The Negotiation of Gender and Religion in Marriage and Familial Relationships in Early Modern England, 1554-c.1640 Start Date: 01/10/2024
Lucy Allan Piety and Patriarchy: The Negotiation of Gender and Religion in Marriage and Familial Relationships in Early Modern England, 1554-c.1640 Start Date: 01/10/2024 End Date: 17/10/2025