University of Innsbruck

Department for Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies

room 06H040 (6th floor)
Innrain 52a (Ágnes-Heller-Haus)
A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
phone: +43 512 507-40705
email: patryk.ryczkowski@uibk.ac.at

ORCID

• Generic poetics of epyllion in Late Antiquity, Middle Ages and Early Modern times
• Middle Latin and Neo-Latin epic poetry, in particular biblical and hagiographic poems
• Biblical Poetry in Middle Ages and Early Modern times
• Early Modern hagiography and cult of saints
• Polish and Latin literature from the historical space of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in particular considering interconfessional and intercultural relationships
• Basilian Order and its literature

• Book:
  • Das mittellateinische Epyllion. Studien zur Kleinform der epischen Dichtung im Mittelalter, Bern [et al.]: Peter Lang, 2021 (Lateinische Sprache und Literatur des Mittelalters, vol. 53).
• Contributions:
  • The Making of a Saint through the Lenses of (Panegyrical) Poetry: Aleksander Walenty Szlachtowicz’s Tryumph duchowny (1628) and Josaphat Kuntsevych’s First processus in partibus, in: Ivan Almes, Nataliia Fedyshyn, Salvijus Kulevičius (eds.), The Making and Remembering of Saint Josaphat Kuntsevych, 17th–20th Century (= Lietuvos istorijos studijos, Sonderheft 16), Vilnius 2025, p. 184–213.
  • Poesis perfecta? Sarbiewskis Vorlesungen zur epischen Dichtung und die Josaphatis von Josaphat Isakowicz (1628) als Beispiel für hagiographische Epik im Barock, in: Beate Hintzen (ed.), Lateinische Literatur des Barock – Inhalte, literarische Formen und Funktionen, Paderborn 2025, p. 283–307 (Poesis, vol. 3).
  • Praesidium non futile. Die jesuitische Aneignung der hagiographischen Legende über die Blutreliquie der Thebäischen Legion in der Mauritias von Louis Cellot (1628), in: Maren Elisabeth Schwab, Stefan Feddern, Jochen Schultheiß, Andreas Schwab (eds.), The Poetics of Things Past / Gedichtete Geschichtsdinge. Transmission of Knowledge in Verse from Antiquity to Early Modern Times, Baden-Baden 2025, p. 87–113.
  • A Failed Work? Gregor of Sambor’s Biblias and his Biblical Poems (hymni) from the Bibliados feria seu tabula I (1566), in: Humanistica Lovaniensia 73 (2024), p. 371–413.
  • The Triumph Of the Saint: St. Casimir Jagiellon and the Militant Motifs in Baroque Hagiographical Poetry, in: Jacqueline Glomski, Gesine Manuwald, Andrew Taylor (eds.), Baroque Latinity: Studies in the Neo-Latin Literature of the European Baroque, London 2023, p. 51–67.
  • Like a Phoenix into the Ashes: Christological and Jesuit Profile of Uniate Martyrdom in Andrzej Młodzianowski’s Emblematic Vita (1675) of Josaphat Kuntsevych (1580–1623), in: Elisa Frei, Eleonora Rai (eds.), Profiling Saints: Images of Modern Sanctity in a Global World, Göttingen 2023, p. 345–370.
  • Consortia palmae. Die referentielle Inszenierung der Aufnahme des Johannes von Nepomuk in den Heiligenkreis in der Nepomuceneis von Matteo Eudocio Persico, in: Ramona Hocker, Werner Telesko (eds.), Johannes von Nepomuk. Kult – Künste – Kommunikation, Vienna 2023, p. 171–189.
  • A Farmer Who Does Not Want to Be a Poet: The Motif of recusatio in the Compositional Structure of Sarbiewski’s Ode IV 4, in: Ałła Brzozowska, Mariusz Plago (eds.), Ars recusandi. Odmowa jako zabieg literacki w tekstach greckich i łacińskich od starożytności do końca XVIII wieku, Warsaw 2022, p. 159–174.
  • Finis Ianitii? Mikołaj Lubomirski’s supplementum to Klemens Janicki’s Vitae regum Polonorum, in: Terminus 24 (2022), issue 1 (62), p. 55–91.
  • Paraphrasis historiae de Susanna by Adamus Placotomus Silesius and the ‘raptularius’ (notebook) of Mikołaj Lubomirski, in: Neulateinisches Jahrbuch 23 (2021), p. 177–210.
  • Caelestis Hierusalem Cives. The Role and Function of the Latin Hagiographic Epic in Early Modern Saint-Making: An Introduction to a New Research Project, in: Neulateinisches Jahrbuch 23 (2021), p. 292–299.
  • Longas carpere perge uias. Rola wędrówki jako Owidiuszowego remedium amoris w strukturze kompozycyjnej Nadobnej Pasqualiny Samuela Twardowskiego, in: Terminus 20 (2018), issue 3 (48), p. 311–350.
  • Między biblijną Zuzanną a Zuzanną Jana Kochanowskiego. Kontekstualizacja Historia Susannae Jeremiasza Wojnowskiego (1567), in: Studia classica et neolatina 16 (2018), p. 22–40.
  • Susannas verlorene Stimme. Das Gedicht Versus de sancta Susanna: Erstedition und Analyse, in: Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 52 (2017), p. 400–425.
  • Viae aequoreae. Morskie tło miłości Herony i Leandra w opowieściach Owidiusza i Muzajosa, in: Dominika Lewandowska, Kamila Marciniak, Hanna Rajfura (eds.), Navigare necesse. Morze – Podróż – Przejście – Przemiana, Warsaw 2015, p. 51–71 (ΣΧΟΛΗ, vol. 10).
  • Ecce mihi lacerae dictant scribenda Camenae. Więzienne świadectwo Boecjusza, in: Nowy Filomata 16 (2012), p. 171–183.
• Annotated translations:
  • Anna Maria Wasyl (ed.), Blozjusz Emiliusz Drakoncjusz, Dzieła, 2 vol., Cracow 2025 (Hortus Philologiae) – annotated translation into Polish of Dracontius’ Romulea V (Controversia de statua viri fortis), vol. 1, p. 186–205 and 363–373, Romulea IX (Deliberat Achillis, an corpus Hectoris vendat), vol. 1, p. 258–269 and 393–397 as well as of the Aegritudo Perdicae, vol. 2, p. 386–401 and 413–420.
• Popular scientific contributions:
  • Vilnius ir unitų bažnyčia: pokalbis su dr. Patryku Ryczkowskiu / From Vilnius to the World: An Interview with Dr. Patryk Ryczkowski on Reunification of Christianity in Early Modern Europe, an interview for the Vilnius University website published bilingually on 15.1.2025, conducted in English and translated into Lithuanian by Gintarė Bidlauskienė, https://www.vu.lt/en/news-events/news/from-vilnius-to-the-world-an-interview-with-dr-patryk-ryczkowski-on-reunification-of-christianity-in-early-modern-europe [last accessed 30.1.2025].
  • Unitų paveldas: šventieji ir jų pasakojima, an interview for Naujasis Židinys-Aidai 100.8 (2024), p. 13–16, conducted in English and translated into Lithuanian by Eleonora Terleckienė.
  • Epidemic, Saint, and Epic Poetry: Verse Hagiography in the Baroque Period, blog issue for Baroque Latinity AHRC-funded research network, May 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/research/research-projects/baroque-latinity [last accessed 12.1.2023].
• Book reviews:
  • Alexander Herböck (ed.), Ioannes Porterius Nivernas. Athamantis Furor. Eine neulateinische Tragödie. Textausgabe, Übersetzung und Interpretation, Berlin / Boston 2021, in: Gnomon 97 (2025), issue 2, p. 316–320.
  • Christian Peters (ed.), Basinio da Parma, Hesperis. Der italische Krieg, Heidelberg 2021, in: Editionen in der Kritik. Editionswissenschaftliches Rezensionsorgan 12 (2024), p. 179–185.
  • Walter Berschin, Angelika Häse (eds.), Gerhard von Augsburg, Vita Sancti Uodalrici. Die älteste Lebensbeschreibung des heiligen Ulrich, lateinisch – deutsch. Mit Kanonisationsurkunde von 993, Heidelberg ²2020, in: Editionen in der Kritik. Editionswissenschaftliches Rezensionsorgan 12 (2024), p. 108–114.
  • Susanne Spreckelmeier, Bibelepisches Erzählen vom ‘Transitus Mariae’ im Mittelalter. Diskurshistorische Studien, Berlin / Boston 2019, in: Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 57 (2022), p. 322–327.