Urszula Świderska-Włodarczyk – dr hab., professor of the University of Zielona Góra, employed at the Institute of History, head of the Department of Medieval History. She focuses her research interests on the knightly and noble culture, with special emphasis on awareness, identity, mentality, standards of conduct, as well as behaviour patterns and role models in Poland at the turn of the early modern period. She devoted many her articles and books to these subjects.