
Tadeusz Manteuffel
Institute of History
Polish Academy of Sciences
Warsaw/Poland
Welcome to this section! Here you will find a collection of my articles and book chapters.

Articles
Agata Błoch, Saddam Hussain, Clodomir Stantana. "When Human Expertise Meets Advanced Algorithms: Rethinking the Historian’s Craft in the Age of Artificial Intelligence". Cogent Art and Humanities (2026 - in publication process).
Frédérick Madore, Vincent Hiribarren, Agata Błoch, Albrecht Hofheinz, Ashleigh Harris, Augustin Ndione, Britta Frede, Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, Duncan Money, Emmanuel Ngue Um, Érika Melek Delgado, Fallou Ngom, Fu’ad Lawal, Irene Mwendwa, James Yékú, Janeth David Nzenga, Johannes Sibeko, Karen Byera Ijumba, Kólá Túbòssún, Leah Junck, Menno van Zaanen, Nuraddin Aman, Oumou Sidibé, Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, Thompson Gyedu Kwarkye. "For Whom and For What Purpose? A Position Paper on Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies". ZMO Programmatic Texts. Berlin, ZMO 16 (2026). https://doi.org/10.58144/20260827-000.
Agata Błoch. "From Love to Desperation: Notes on Emotions in Correspondence Across the
Portuguese Atlantic World". Ameryka Łacińska. Kwartalnik analityczno-informacyjny (2026 - in publication process).
Agata Błoch, Clodomir Santana, Marcia Amantino. "Os jesuítas e a Era do Algoritmo. Uma introdução à análise de sentimentos da correspondência colonial ultramarina portuguesa". Estudos Ibero-Americanos, 52.1 (2026), e46315. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-864X.2026.1.46315.
Agata Błoch, Guillem Martos Oms, and Clodomir Santana. “Decolonizing Archival Narratives: Exploring Digital Bias in the Catalogs of Portuguese-Colonized African Territories.” The Journal of African History 66 (2025): e19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853725100601.
Clodomir Santana, Demival Vasques Filho, Michał Bojanowski, Agata Błoch. "Unveiling the Critical Nexus of Data Preprocessing and Transparent Documentation for Result Quality and Reproducibility in Digital History". Digital Humanities Quarterly 19.2 (2025) https://doi.org/10.63744/bgd67ykve8v7.
Agata Bloch, Michał Bojanowski, Clodomir Santana, Demival Vasques Filho. "Cracking the Historical Code. From Unstructured Correspondence Corpora to Computational Analysis". In: Models of Data Extraction and Architecture in Relational Databases of Early Modern Private Political Archives, edited by Dorit Raines. Venezia: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2025, pp. 115-142. http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-919-1/006.
Agata Błoch, Clodomir Santana. "Od historii cyfrowej do obliczeniowej. Studium przypadku cyfrowej historii kolonialnego imperium portugalskiego". In: Człowiek twórcą historii. T. 5: Warsztat nowoczesnego humanisty historyka na progu XXI, ed. Cezary Kuklo, Wojciech Walczak. Białystok 2024 Uniw. w Białymstoku, pp. 23-50. https://historia.uwb.edu.pl/badania/publikacje/tomy-zjazdu-historykow-1.html.
Agata Błoch, Demival Vasques Filho, Michał Bojanowski. "Networks from archives: Reconstructing networks of official correspondence in the early modern Portuguese empire." Social Networks 69 (2022): 123-135. 10.1016/j.socnet.2020.08.008.
Agata Błoch. "The 'Miserable Vassals' of the Empire: The Androgynous Codes of Behaviour of Black and Indigenous Peoples in Late Colonial Brazil (1775–1808)". Journal of History 57:3 (2022): 420-457, 10.3138/jh-57-3-2022-0070.
Agata Błoch, Michał Bojanowski, Demival Vaques Filho. "Slaves, Freedmen, Mulattos, Pardos, and Indigenous Peoples: The Early Modern Social Networks of the Population of Color in the Atlantic Portuguese Empire". In: The Digital Black Atlantic, ed. Josephs, Kelly Baker, Roopika Risam. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021, pp. 150-161.
Agata Błoch. "Um frei carmelita no Mundo de intrigas eclesiásticas - uma tentativa de reconstruir o crime de assassinato cometido pelo padre Manuel de Deus e seu escravo António Fernandes".
Cordis: Revista Eletrônica De História Social Da Cidade, 26 (2021), 88–114. Recuperado de https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/cordis/article/view/55840.
Agata Błoch. "Lojalni portugalskim monarchom–militarne oddziały czarnoskórych w kolonialnej Brazylii." Studia Historica Gedanensia 1.12 (2021): 158-176.
Agata Błoch. "A historiografia colonial 'vista de baixo': ameaça, uma abordagem nova ou complementar à história 'vista de cima'"? In: História em movimento: múltiplas abordagens, vol 1.,l ed. Thiago Cedrez da Silva, Edgar Avila Gandra, Elvis Simões. Porto Alegre Editora Casaletras 2020, pp. 10-25. https://www.casaletras.com/_files/ugd/4a0b98_09e85de3e7364b1f93e7932deb4b1108.pdf
Agata Błoch. "Potraying Womanhood in the Portuguese Atlantic". In: Distributive Struggle and the Self in the Early Modern Iberian World, ed. Nikolaus Böttcher, Stefan Rinke, Nino Vallen. Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, Akademischer Verlag Stuttgart, 2019), pp. 219-246. https://d-nb.info/1254211519/34#page=220
Agata Bloch, Marco Vallada Lemonte. "Introduction to the Meteoric Political Rise of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Under a Crisis of the Brazilianness". Ameryka Łacińska. Kwartalnik analityczno-informacyjny 27.4 (106) (2019): 1-22. https://doi.org/10.36551/20811152.2019.106.01.
Agata Błoch. "Dos bárbaros selvagens no oeste tropical aos bárbaros do sul no Extremo Oriente: Brasil e Japão nos olhos dos exploradores portugueses". Rivista di studi portoghesi e brasiliani, 20 (2018), 53-64. Pisa:Fabrizio Serra, https://digital.casalini.it/10.19272/201802701005.
Datasets
Błoch, A., Vasques Filho, D., Bojanowski, M., Santana, C., Hussain, S., & Rzońca, A. (2026). MAPE: A Dataset of Correspondence from the Portuguese Empire [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19683653
Bloch, A., Hussain, S., & Santana, C. (2026). KLEVER model – Keywords & Labels, LLM Evaluation, Verified by Expert Review [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18229678
Błoch, A., Fusco, I., Avallone, P., Cecchini, I., Horeczy, A., Hussain, S., Macrì, G., Rabà, M., Rzońca, A., & Salvemini, R. (2026). Lessons from Crises and Disasters: An Experimental Study of Data Collection Methods [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20529206
Preface
Agata Błoch. "Preface" in: Alcione Nawroski. Cartas para Varsóvia: Escritas de Crianças no
entreguerras. São Paulo: Pimenta Cultural, 2024, pp. 16-21. https://www.pimentacultural.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/eBook_cartas-varsovia.pdf
Reviews
Agata Błoch. "Cacey Bowen Farnsworth. Atlantic Crossroads in Lisbon’s New Golden Age, 1668–1750". The American Historical Review, 131.1, March 2026, 383–384, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaf708
Agata Błoch. "Ana Lucia Araujo, The Gift. How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic
Slave Trade and Colonialism, Cambridge 2023, Cambridge University Press, ss. 224". Kwartalnik Historyczny, R. CXXXI, z. 4/2024. https://kh-ihpan.edu.pl/pl/2024/kh-4-2024
Agata Bloch. “Comboni Missionaries in Mahdist Sudan - Faith, War and Slavery: A History of the Colonial Conquest of Sudan (1881–1898) By Patricia Teixeira Santos and Suresh Kumar. Translated by Vanessa Rodrigues Valério. Delhi: University of Delhi and São Paulo: Editora Unifesp, 2021. Pp. 284. $29.95, Paperback (ISBN: 9789395022113).” The Journal of African History 63.3 (2022): 418–20. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002185372200069X.
Agata Błoch. "Cacicas: The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492–1825 ed. by Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara Vicuña Guengerich (review)". Early American Literature 57.2 (2022), 575-579. 10.1353/eal.2022.0045.
Agata Bloch. "MARQUES, D.; MOREIRA, H.; SAMPAIO, T. (ORG.) – Histórias Da África E Ásia Portuguesas. Recife: EDUPE, 2020". Via Spiritus : Revista De História Da Espiritualidade E Do Sentimento Religioso, n.º 27 (novembro 2021). https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/vsp/article/view/10992.
Press articles
Agata Błoch. "Kto ma prawo do historii? Brazylijczycy wobec kolonialnej przeszłości". Teologia Polityczna Co Tydzień. Pizarro. Polityczność i spór o uniwersalizm. Nr 26 (534)/2026. https://teologiapolityczna.pl/brazylijczycy-wobec-kolonialnej-przeszlosci
Agata Błoch, Marco Vallada Lemonte. "Zwycięstwo Jaira Bolsonaro czy klęska brazylijskiej lewicy?" Kontakt, 2018. https://magazynkontakt.pl/zwyciestwo-jaira-bolsonaro-czy-kleska-brazylijskiej-lewicy/