God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 1. The Origins to 1795
230 M1ASTO enjoyed slightly different privileges. Elsewhere they were taken merely as the commercial branch of the guild system. ...
THE VICISSITUDES OF URBAN LIFE 231 for their perpetual re-election. Every year, the twelve retiring members of the Ruling Counci ...
232 MIASTO of Poland, Sc then the acts are translated into Latin Sc sent to his Matie. But if the mat- ter in Contraversie does ...
THE VICISSITUDES OF URBAN LIFE 233 electors to the unenfranchised plebs was even more restricted than in the case of the Christi ...
234 MIASTO population was largely Lithuanian or Ruthenian. Everywhere Jewish communi- ties were well established in all the urba ...
THE VICISSITUDES OF URBAN LIFE 235 Poland's least productive regions, it enjoyed but modest success in the corn and timber trade ...
236 MIASTO Powaiki Map 16. Warsaw - the Growth of the City to 1800 ...
THE VICISSITUDES OF URBAN LIFE 237 north by the growing Livonian crisis. In 1568, he supervised the wooden piles as they were dr ...
238 MIASTO brick churches into a capital of stone and marble. Continual embellishment of the Royal Castle, notably by the additi ...
THE VICISSITUDES OF URBAN LIFE 239 The magnates were largely responsible for the planned development of the city, most character ...
240 MIASTO at the end of Dtuga Street. They soon fell into disrepair. The earthworks of 1770 were inspired by the threat of plag ...
THE VICISSITUDES OF URBAN LIFE 241 After each successive disaster, the city's population shrank alarmingly. From 18,000 in 1655, ...
242 MIASTO The burghers also produced a treaty concluded between themselves and the infidel Jews in 1640... and another conclude ...
THE VICISSITUDES OF URBAN LIFE 243 The fall of Jaworow's income from 842 to 508 florins over only thirty-four years represented ...
244 MIASTO decreased in proportion to the plebs, the poor, and the Jews. The urban popu- lation sank to a mere 15 per cent of th ...
THE VICISSITUDES OF URBAN LIFE 245 atrophied mockery of their former splendour. It was a sorry state of affairs, only partially ...
10 ANARCHIA: The Noble Democracy Throughout the modern period, the history of most European countries is dom- inated by the grow ...
THE NOBLE DEMOCRACY 247 largely prevail in existing history textbooks to this day. The Republic of Poland-Lithuania was not a re ...
248 ANARCHIA ...
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