Mgr. Lenka Panušková, Ph.D.

Researcher at the Department of Medieval Art.

Lenka Panušková studied History of Art and Culture at the University of Trnava (M.A. 2005) and then at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague (Ph.D. 2009). Since 2009, she has been working at the Department of Medieval Studies of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Since November 2024, she has also been a research associate at the Leibniz Institute Leipzig (GWZO Leipzig), where she has been working on the project "Bewegung - Begegnung - Konflikt: Forschungen zur transnationalen Kulturgeschichte des östlichen Europa im Übergang vom Spätmittelalter zur Frühen Neuzeit." In the past, she gave lectures and seminars at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. She has recently published a collective monograph Reflecting Jerusalem in Medieval Czech Lands (Amsterdam University Press 2025, in collaboration with Anna Kernbach and Daniel Soukup), which was the main output of the project funded by the Czech Science Foundation. Her current research focuses on issues of female piety in medieval culture, with an emphasis on the St. George's Covent at Prague Castle. Her other research interests include medieval iconography and apocalyptic thought, the function of diagrams and schemata in medieval manuscripts, and last but not least the art of Anglo-Saxon England. He is also interested in the relationship between Christians and Jews in the Middle Ages.
 

Research outputs (selection):

Lenka Panušková – Anna Kernbach – Daniel Soukup (edd.), Reflecting Jerusalem in Medieval Czech Lands, Amsterdam University Press 2025.

The Vyšší Brod Cycle and Its Anonymous Painter: French and Bohemian Court Circles in the 1340s, in: Ingrid Ciulisová – Karl Kügle – Václav Žůrek (edd.), Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth Century: Performing Empire, Celebrating Kingship, Boydell & Brewer 2024, pp. 105–136.

Bohemian and English Painting in the Last Decades of the 14th Century: Tracing the Bohemian Influence, in: Peter Brown – Jan Čermák (edd.), England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer, Boydell & Brewer 2023, pp. 181–202.

Who Was the Reader of the Passional of the Abbess Cunigunde? Passion Imagery and Devotion in the St George Monastery at the Prague Castle, in: Monika Brenišínová (ed.), Transmissions: Monasteries as Sites of Cultural Transfers, Oxford: Archaeopress 2022, pp. 22–39.

Machauts Le Remède de Fortune und die höfische Gesellschaft in BildernDana Dvořáčková-Malá – Kristýna Solomon – Michel Margue (edd.), Über den Hof und am Hofe: Literatur und Geschichtsschreibung im Mittelalter, Dresden 2021, pp. 81–96.

Current projects:

Bewegung - Begegnung – Konflikt: Forschungen zur transnationalen Kulturgeschichte des östlichen Europa im Übergang vom Spätmittelalter zur Frühen Neuzeit, Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa
https://leibniz-gwzo.de/de/node/1389#section-7754