Przemyslaw Wiszewski is Professor at the University of Wroclaw, Department of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences. He specialises in comparative regional history, with a special emphasis on borderlands, from the tenth to the twentieth centuries. His previous publications include Domus Bolezlai: Values and Social Identity in Dynastic Traditions of Medieval Poland, c.966-1138) (2010), the Polish edition of which was honoured with the Prize of the Ministry of Science.