Anna Kalinowska (PhD) – employee of the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw; author of numerous academic articles, co-author (with Jonathan Sprangler) of a monograph Power and Ceremony in European History: Rituals, Practices and Representative Bodies since the Late Middle Ages (Bloomsbury Publishing, Sept. 2021); her research covers the area of early modern history, history of diplomacy, history of Great Britain