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Article 2019

Death of the Magnate: Life Expectancy of the Magnatery in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Versus the Demography of the Western European Elites in the Early Modern Age

Authors / editors: Marzena Liedke

Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski

The aim of the article is to present life expectancy calculations for magnates, the elite of the nobility (but not an exact equivalent of European aristocracy) from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th–18th centuries (life tables for women and men). The paper also conta…

DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2019.41-03 · ISSN: 0079-7189

Article 2017

Sieć społeczna wokół Kuriera Warszawskiego na podstawie jego nekrologów z lat 1821–1861

Authors / editors: Marek Jerzy Minakowski

Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski

Rafał Smoczyński and Tomasz Zarycki proposed a thesis that in Poland around 1920 the intelligentsia had taken power from the aristocracy and bourgeoisie (it is called ‘intelligentsia revolution’). They advanced another thesis that the reference point (‘totem’) for the identity of…

DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2017.39-09 · ISSN: 0079-7189

Article 2016

Intercyza zawarta między Janem Klemensem Branickim a Katarzyną Barbarą Radziwiłłówną jako przykład realizacji strategii rodzinnych magnaterii (1720 r.)

Authors / editors: Karol Łopatecki

Published in: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski

The article contains a legal analysis of the property relations resulting from the marriage of Jan Klemens Branicki to KatarzynaBarbara Radziwiłł. The events here depicted reveal that the economic success of an aristocratic family to a large extentconsisted in a skilful construct…

DOI: 10.18276/pdp.2016.3.38-02 · ISSN: 0079-7189