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Artykuł przedstawia wyniki analiz funkcjonowania rynku kredytowego Starej Warszawy w drugiej ćwierci XV stulecia. W badaniach wykorzystano materiał zawarty w najstarszej z zachowanych księdze ławy miejskiej z lat 1427–1453. Zgromadzone dane zostały zaprezentowane za pomocą licznych wykresów i tabel. Obserwacji poddano takie elementy charakteryzujące rynek kredytowy, jak: dynamika zapisów, ich wartość, czas trwania umów, sezonowość wpisów, działanie systemu ratalnego oraz sposoby zabezpieczenia kontraktów.
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2015
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vol. 37
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issue 1
71-91
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The article contains a review of Polish scientific literature concerning the history of women in the towns in Polish lands in the late Middle Ages. The article fulfils two main objectives: to present the state of development and directions of the analyses, and to outline new research possibilities, especially the ones offered by urban judicial records. The present scientific output of Polish medievalists proves that they are not too much interested in the role of women in the urban communities. In addition to just a few articles that deal with that problem seriously (briefly presenting many spheres of how women functioned in towns), there is a group of studies that treat the subject in a more sophisticated way. At present, the question best analysed is the legal situation of female inhabitants of towns and the problems taking place in the marital relations; the two things are closely related. The question of the professional life of women in the form of their participation in the guilds and retail trade has also been touched on. A lot of space has been devoted to the religious life of townswomen expressed in numerous pilgrimages and donations to ecclesiastical institutions. Undoubtedly, the least investigated sphere is the economic activities of women such as their participation in the credit market, the real estate turnover and commerce. The basic statistical analyses of the material that has been available in the judicial books of Warsaw, Cracow and Wąwolnica has proved their enormous research value. The urban sources (depending on the size of the town in question) offer to researchers hundreds or even thousands of mentions and records that are testimony of women’s participation in various spheres of urban life. Therefore, it is becoming possible to get an insight not only into the women’s activities in credit and real estate markets, but also into the meanders of their family life (inheritance and the like), lawsuits concerning unpaid debts and links with the criminal world. Regrettably, the urban books are still rarely explored and in most cases the quantitative methods are not used.
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The aim of the study has been to examine the demographic condition of late medieval burgher families in Warsaw Old Town. The analysis covers such indicators as the number of living offspring, replacement fertility rate as well as the size of the family taking into account its wealth. The study is based on family property deals recorded in the court register of the town of Warsaw Old Town (1427–1453). The author’s quantitative analysis covers 155 entries. The average number of living offspring for the 155 analysed families was 2,35. Yet a correlation with the level of wealth has shown that plebeian families had 1 living child on average, common families 2 children, while patrician families were able to raise over 3 children. Burgher families also had a low replacement fertility rate (1,15) indicating that one father had one son. The town limited their residents demographically, making it impossible for most families to build structures encompassing several generations and many children. In comparison to the peasants and nobility, the cives had smaller families and lower replacement fertility rate.
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