God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 1. The Origins to 1795
190 SZLACHTA paint the splendours of a Radziwill; it is another to imply that partial glimpses are somehow representative of the ...
THE NOBLEMAN'S PARADISE 191 men's houses, 'sztukwarkowy' furniture imported from Danzig, oil paintings of the ancestors, mosaics ...
192 SZLACHTA of Saints Blaise and Agatha; to Whitsuntide; and to Corpus Christi. On Ascension Day, the figure of Christ would be ...
THE NOBLEMAN'S PARADISE 193 'After munching their birdseed porridge, our Mazovians Have salty beards, which they dunk in their b ...
194 SZLACHTA And there was the girl who believed in dragons: When news arrived from Hungary that dragons were still alive And fl ...
THE NOBLEMAN'S PARADISE 195 Next came a 'Victory Car' displaying the effigies of hostile countries, and carrying prisoners of wa ...
196 SZLACHTA where some family inventories listed diamonds and pearls by the bucketful and silver plate by the hundredweight, bu ...
8 HANDEL: The Polish Grain Trade The rise of the Vistula trade can be clearly dated to the middle of the fifteenth century. At t ...
198 HANDEL Vistula. In Thorn, he married Barbara Watzenrode, the daughter of a patrician family, and there his fourth child, als ...
Map 13. The Vistula Trade ...
(^200) HANDEL permanent family and business connections in Amsterdam. In the same period, there were about twenty British agents ...
THE POLISH GRAIN TRADE 201 merchants joined together to form trading companies; but their partnerships were usually no more than ...
(^202) HANDEL was exceeded in its destructiveness only by the decade 1700-10 when the Great Northern "War ebbed and flowed acros ...
THE POLISH GRAIN TRADE 203 In terms of the total grain exports, the Lubomirski latifundium varied in the period 1663-1750 from a ...
204 HANDEL Tarnow, Jaroslaw, Lubartow, Uscilug - where warehouses and boatyards were sited. The farthest reaches in the Beskidy, ...
THE POLISH GRAIN TRADE 205 voyage and the time of year, and on varying demand. Those quoted by von Lessenau in 1796 for a szkuta ...
(^206) HANDEL setting out for the first time, and is full of detailed explanations and practical hints. Like most works of the t ...
THE POLISH GRAIN TRADE 207 ships, with their high castles and crow's-nests - which, as a countryman, he calls bocianie gniazda ( ...
208 HANDEL Urbs nova, dives opum, Dantiscum sive Gedanum. Accipe, divina quae tibi mente loquor! Est breve tempus adhuc: si non ...
THE POLISH GRAIN TRADE 209 warfare, and until the 1640s its own warships, which formed the core of the Royal Fleet. Its society ...
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