Object's details: The Role of Serfdoms in the Obligation System of the Inhabitants of Villages on the Wallachian Law in Lesser Poland (Małopolska) and Crown Ruthenia (15th-16th century).

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The Role of Serfdoms in the Obligation System of the Inhabitants of Villages on the Wallachian Law in Lesser Poland (Małopolska) and Crown Ruthenia (15th-16th century).
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Jawor, Grzegorz
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The Role of Serfdoms in the Obligation System of the Inhabitants of Villages on the Wallachian Law in Lesser Poland (Małopolska) and Crown Ruthenia (15th-16th century). The aim of the article is an attempt to define a role of serfdoms in the system of obligations provided by the population living in the settlements established on the Wallachian law. On the basis of a critical analysis of a relatively numerous sources preserved from the region in question (in particular, the documents associated with the rights given to individual villages, inventories, and royal domain), an attempt was made to verify the common belief in the scholarship on this topic about the lack of, or at least the minimum, share of the serfdoms for the owners in the obligation system of the inhabitants. As a result, a specific feature of the Wallachian law was indicated, which was the obligation – elsewhere unknown or occurring only in minute traces – of performing small errands a few times in a year for the benefit of the dukes (kniaź). It was recorded throughout the entire studied period and in all of the areas partaking in the Wallachian colonisation. In contrast, there are many more doubts regarding the conviction about a complete lack of serfdoms for the owners of villages. The presented source material indicates that there were indeed settlements to which this duty did not apply (and perhaps this situation was even dominating), but in other places the older and usually less strenuous forms of labours were present (annual works, duties “under the order”, ect.), while the attempts to impose weekly serfdoms date back to the 1530s and 1540s. Its widespread implementation in the areas outside of mountains is strictly linked to the development of a grange, set up for the production of grain. For the Wallachian settlements this meant a limitation, and then a thorough disposal of their privileged legal status. It is not a matter of coincidence that this colonising tendency was clearly restrained at the turn of the 16th and 17th century. This fate was avoided only be the villages situated in a typically mountainous area where the natural conditions prevented the production of crops on a large scale. Populations living therein – that were ruled by the Wallachian law – lasted longer and the processes of assimilation and integration with the local surroundings took place more slowly. .;
The Role of Serfdoms in the Obligation System of the Inhabitants of Villages on the Wallachian Law in Lesser Poland (Małopolska) and Crown Ruthenia (15th-16th century). The aim of the article is an attempt to define a role of serfdoms in the system of obligations provided by the population living in the settlements established on the Wallachian law. On the basis of a critical analysis of a relatively numerous sources preserved from the region in question (in particular, the documents associated with the rights given to individual villages, inventories, and royal domain), an attempt was made to verify the common belief in the scholarship on this topic about the lack of, or at least the minimum, share of the serfdoms for the owners in the obligation system of the inhabitants. As a result, a specific feature of the Wallachian law was indicated, which was the obligation – elsewhere unknown or occurring only in minute traces – of performing small errands a few times in a year for the benefit of the dukes (kniaź). It was recorded throughout the entire studied period and in all of the areas partaking in the Wallachian colonisation. In contrast, there are many more doubts regarding the conviction about a complete lack of serfdoms for the owners of villages. The presented source material indicates that there were indeed settlements to which this duty did not apply (and perhaps this situation was even dominating), but in other places the older and usually less strenuous forms of labours were present (annual works, duties “under the order”, ect.), while the attempts to impose weekly serfdoms date back to the 1530s and 1540s. Its widespread implementation in the areas outside of mountains is strictly linked to the development of a grange, set up for the production of grain. For the Wallachian settlements this meant a limitation, and then a thorough disposal of their privileged legal status. It is not a matter of coincidence that this colonising tendency was clearly restrained at the turn of the 16th and 17th century. This fate was avoided only be the villages situated in a typically mountainous area where the natural conditions prevented the production of crops on a large scale. Populations living therein – that were ruled by the Wallachian law – lasted longer and the processes of assimilation and integration with the local surroundings took place more slowly.;
Rola pańszczyzn w systemie powinności mieszkańców wsi na prawie wołoskim w Małopolsce i Rusi Koronnej (XV-XVI stulecia) Celem artykułu była próba określenia roli pańszczyzn w systemie powinności świadczonych przez ludność zamieszkującą w osadach rządzących sie prawem wołoskim. W oparciu o krytyczną analizę dość licznie zachowanych materiałów źródłowych z badanego obszaru (zwłaszcza dokumentów związanych z lokacjami poszczególnych wsi, inwentarzy i lustracji królewszczyzn) podjęto próbę weryfikacji powszechnego w literaturze przedmiotu przekonania o braku lub co najwyżej minimalnym udziale pańszczyzn na rzecz właścicieli w systemie powinności mieszkańców. W efekcie wskazano na specyficzną cechę prawa wołoskiego, jaką był nieznany gdzie indziej lub występujący zaledwie w śladowej postaci, obowiązek wykonywania niewielkich, liczących kilka dni w roku robocizn, świadczonych na rzecz kniaziów. Odnotowano go w całym badanym okresie i na wszystkich obszarach objętych kolonizacją wołoską. Znacznie więcej wątpliwości budzi natomiast przekonanie o zupełnym braku pańszczyzn na rzecz właścicieli wsi. Zaprezentowany materiał źródłowy wskazuje, że rzeczywiście istniały osady których ten obowiązek nie dotyczył (i być może nawet ta sytuacja dominowała), jednak w innych występowały starsze, zwykle mniej uciążliwe formy prac (robocizny w wymiarze rocznym, „na rozkaz” itd.), natomiast próby narzucenia pańszczyzny tygodniowej sięgają lat 30.-40. XVI w. Jej powszechne wprowadzenie na obszarach pozagórskich ściśle łączy sie z rozwojem folwarku nastawionego na produkcję zboża. Dla osad wołoskich oznaczało to ograniczenie, a następnie całkowitą likwidację ich uprzywilejowanego statusu prawnego. Nie jest kwestia przypadku, że ten nurt kolonizacyjny ulega wyraźnemu zahamowaniu na przełomie XVI i XVII wieku. Losu tego uniknęły jedynie miejscowości, położone w typowej strefie górskiej, gdzie warunki naturalne uniemożliwiały na szerszą skalę uprawę zbóż. Tam egzystujące społeczności rządzące się prawem wołoskim trwały dłużej a procesy asymilacji i integracji z miejscowym otoczeniem zachodziły wolniej.   
Object availability:
free access
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Prawa autorskie (c) 2020 Grzegorz Jawor
Date:
2020.01.26
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Language:
French
Source:
Balcanica Posnaniensia. Acta et studia; Vol. 26 (2019); 249-267;
Balcanica Posnaniensia Acta et studia; Tom 26 (2019); 249-267;
2450-3177;
0239-4278
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/bp/article/view/19687/20940
Subject:
Karpaty;
ius Valachicum;
pańszczyzna;
folwark pańszczyźniany;
Carpathians;
serfdoms;
labours;
serfdom-based grange
Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/bp/article/view/19687
Data provider:
Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

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