Urszula Augustyniak

Urszula Augustyniak (born 1950) is a Polish historian and academic, who specializes in cultural history of the early modern period.

She graduated in history from the University of Warsaw in 1973. She holds a PhD (1979) and habilitation (1988) from the same university. She has been full professor since 2000. Urszula Augustyniak is a member of editorial board of "Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce".

She has written extensively about the functioning of the Polish-Lithuanian royal court, customs of the nobility, clientelism, relations between the clergy and the secular estate, religious differences in the early modern period, Baroque art and the ways of disseminating information in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Provided by Wikipedia