THE WEAPONRY OF AN EARLY-MODERN DUCAL COURT IN THE LIGHT OF ACCOUNTS. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS (Uzbrojenie wczesnonowozytnego dworu ksiazecego w swietle rachunków dworskich. Analiza porownawcza)

• Authors: Boldyrew Aleksander
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Within the last years the armaments research is flourishing. Seemingly, the source of knowledge about the armaments is empty. At the turn of Middle Ages and at the beginning of Renaissance there were a few smaller courts in the Kingdom of Poland, for instance the court of Mazovian prince, Janusz II or the courts of prince Zygmunt Jagiellon, later the king of Poland - Zygmunt I Old (Buda and Glogów-Opawa courts). The aim of the dissertation is to conduct a comparative analysis of the purchased armament at the mentioned courts on the basis of the accounts and bills. There were various financial and account systems used at that time. It is worth emphasizing that the financial systems of Silesia and Hungary were similar. The similarity is mostly about the value of the Polish grosz as the Polish grosz and Silesian one had similar value. The analysis begins with offensive armaments. It was discussed mainly through the prism of providing new copies, repairing the old ones and providing salary for craftsmen of armaments. The prince Janusz II spent for offensive armaments 26 fl 26 grosz, prince Zygmunt 42 fl 6,3 gr. In spite of problems with terminology connected with identification of protective armaments in historical sources it is possible to notice that prince Janusz II spent pro arma, i.e. for protective armament 318 fl. 7 gr, prince Zygmunt 81 fl 20 gr. The whole expenditure of two princes for offensive and protective armament is depicted in table 3 and 4. To sum up, the author compares the expenditure using comparative methods used in Polish history as early as in 1970s. The courts of both princes were close to each other both geographically and chronologically. Additionally, they were within the scope of one dynasty - Jagiellonian. The concurrence of the historical sources (the prince's book of accounts) is just another argument in favour of taking up the issue emphasised in the title. It was depicted with help of the tables (5-8) and charts (1-4). As a result, the answer about the percentage of expenditure for armament within one year was provided. Janusz II and Zygmunt spents about 1% of a yearly budget. To depict dynamics of the purchases and repairs the author used chain indicator and increase indicator.

Keywords

EN

JANUSZ II; WEAPONRY; ZYGMUNT JAGIELLON

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 3-18
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Boldyrew Aleksander

• Aleksander Boldyrew, Uniwersytet Humanistyczno-Przyrodniczy Jana Kochanowskiego Filia w Piotrkowie Trybunalskim, ul. J. Slowackiego 114/118, 97-300 Piotrków Trybunalski

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA09284