Women's noble court in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Saxon times. Structure, people, culture, functions
New article in Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej
We kindly recommend you to read new article of prof. Bożena Popiołek- The courts of Marianna Lubomirska née Bielińska and Joanna von Stein Lubomirska, the wives of the Grand Standard Bearer of the Crown, as an example of a women’s court in Old Poland, KHKM 70 (2), 2022 183-200.
The current article contributes to the research on the functioning and organisation of female magnate courts in the Polish-Lithuanian state in the 18th century. The discussed courts belonged to Marianna née Bielińska and Joanna née von Stein, the wives of the Great Standard-Bearer of the Crown Jerzy Ignacy Lubomirski. Both ladies closely collaborated with the Wettin family, then ruling the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania. Special attention has been devoted to Joanna von Stein Lubomirska, who after her hers husband’s death still surrounded herself with a large court and continued numerous economic ventures which allowed her to retain high standards of living
