Dr. Anna Adamska is since 1997 affiliated scholar in the Institute for the History and Culture at the Utrecht University. Her research focuses on medieval (pragmatic) literacy and communication, and embraces forms and functions of charters, the social history of language, source criticism and  methodology of Medieval Studies. She is also interested in the cultural and socio-religious history of East Central Europe, as well as in the history of the humanities in this region in the communist and post-communist period.