Women's noble court in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Saxon times. Structure, people, culture, functions
New article published by prof. Bożena Popiołek
Article “Szlachcic na funkcyi”. Inwentarze ruchomości Władysława Charczowskiego jako świadectwo zmian mentalnych i kulturowych wśród szlachty w XVIII wieku” [“A nobleman on function.” Wladyslaw Charczowski’s inventories of movable property as a testimony to mental and cultural changes in the 18th century] by prof. Bożena Popiołek was published in Scientific Journal Saeculum Christianum.
The article is devoted to the changes in the culture and mentality of the eighteenth-century Polish nobility on the example of the property inventories of Władysław Charczowski, the son of castellan of Słońsk. The process of building a clerical career of a wealthy nobleman can be seen in the transformation of his environment – his marriage, the creation of a manor, recruitment of supporters and building prestige through expensive purchases. The preserved purchase registers, bills, property inventories, settlements with servants show us the complicated process of a
nobleman climbing the ladder of social dependence, creating his own environment, and thus a political career, interrupted by the untimely tragic death of Władysław Charczowski.
