About
Darius’s research and teaching concentrated on cultural aspects of religious warfare, crusading, military orders and identity. In the recent years his interests shifted towards global history as the result of being involved in interdisciplinary research and teaching subjects which examine history from a global perspective. He is particularly interested in the common patterns which emerged across all cultures, in aspects of world history which have drawn people together and the examinations of these patterns which reveal the diversity of the human experience.
Darius has a strong research interest in education. In addition to the interest in curriculum (design and development, and policy implementation and evaluation), he researches the nexus between research orientated teaching and learning and the disparity between the methodology of teaching of a discipline like History at secondary and tertiary levels. After a decade of teaching outside metropolitan centers he is working collaboratively on the issues affecting education in regional settings, specifically on regional culturally, linguistically and economically diverse (CLED) communities of learning and the use of emerging technologies and the issues affecting funding for humanities. Publications
Recent publications
- Święte wojny Piastów [The holy wars of the Piast dynasty], Warszawa: Wydawnictwo PWN, 2017.
- The French Revolution, Melbourne: Cengage Nelson, 2016.
- “Bishop Vincentius of Cracow and Chronica Polonorum,” [in:] Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association 12 (2016): 69–87.
- “Historical writing or the manufacture of memory” [in:] Remembering the Crusades and Crusading, ed. Megan Cassidy-Welch, London: Routledge, 2016, pp. 95–113.
- “Od misji do wojny świętej I krucjaty. Chrzest pogan w kręgu środkowoeuropejskim a ideologia krucjatowa,” [in:] Chrystianizacja Młodszej Europy, ed. Józef Dobosz, Jerzy Strzelczyk i Marzena Matla, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM: Poznań, 2016, pp. 201–219.
- “Holy War and Proto-Crusading: Twelfth Century Justifications for the Campaigns against the Pomeranians and Prussians” [in:] Crusading on the Edge: Ideas and Practice of Crusading in Iberia and the Baltic Region, 1100-1500, ed. Torben K. Nielsen i Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt. Outremer. Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East 3. Turnhout: Brepols (2016).
- “Crusading Against European Pagans: Between Holy War and Mission,” [in:] The Crusader World, ed. Adrian Boas, London: Routledge, 2015, pp. 144–162.
- “Constructing memory. Holy war in the Chronicle of the Poles by Bishop Vincentius of Cracow,” [in:] Crusades and Memory. Rethinking Past and Present, ed. Megan Cassidy-Welch i Anne Elisabeth Lester. London: Taylor and Francis, 2015, pp. 135–149.
- “Poland and the Second Crusade,” [in:] The Second Crusade in Perspective, II: Eastern Europe and the March towards the Holy Land, ed. Jason T. Roche i Janus Møller Jensen. Outremer: Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015, pp. 115–154.
- Poland, Holy War and the Piast Dynasty, 1100–1230, Turnhout: Brepols, 2014.
- “Constructing memory: holy war in the Chronicle of the Poles by Bishop Vincentius of Cracow,” [in:] Journal of Medieval History 40 (2014): 201–232.
Older publications
- “Evolution and adaptation: The Order of Saint John in war and peace,” [in:] Ordines Militares 18 (2013): 205–217.
- “Czechy a przenikanie idei krucjatowych do Polski,” [in:] Historia Slavorum Occidentis 2 (2012): 91–102.
- “The archetypal crusader: Henry of Sandomierz, the second youngest son of Bolesław III of Poland,” [in:] Rome, Constantinople and Newly-Converted Europe. Archaeological and Historical Evidence, ed. Michal Salamon. Kraków 2012, vol. I, pp. 215–231.
- “Memorialisation and historical awareness – witness’ testimonies in the trials between Poland and the Teutonic Order in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,” [in:] Arguments and Counter-Arguments. The Political Thought of the 14th-and 15th Centuries during the Polish-Teutonic Order Trials and Disputes. Toruń: University of Toruń, 2012, pp. 55–67.
- “Poland and the Papacy before the Second Crusade” [in:] Proceedings of the VIII Conference of the Society for Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, ed. Michel Ballard. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012, pp. 255–268.
- “Piastowie a idea wypraw krzyżowych w czasie pierwszej i drugiej wyprawy krzyżowej,” [in:] Kościół w monarchiach Przemyślidów i Piastów. Materiały z konferencji naukowej Gniezno 21–24 września 2006 roku, ed. Józef Dobosz. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 2009, pp. 139–150.
- “Recent Issues in the Polish Historiography of the Crusades,” [in:] The Military Orders: On Land and by Sea, ed. Judi Upton-Ward. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, pp. 13–21.
- “Wyprawy krzyżowe. Na przekór definicjom,” [in:] Pierwsze polsko-czeskie forum młodych mediewistów. Materiały z konferencji naukowej Gniezno 27–29 września 2005 roku, red Józef Dobosz, Jakub Kujawiński, Marzena Matla-Kozłowska. Poznań: Wydawnictwo IH UAM, 2007, pp. 81–88.
