Dzieciństwo w mieście na ziemiach polskich w XVI–XVIII wieku
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2012
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Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk we współpracy z Zakładem Historii Wychowania, WSE UAM
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Childhood in a Town in the Polish Territories in the 16th–18th
Abstract
The issues of a child and childhood in the Polish territories have been neglected by historians for
a long time. One of the reasons for this situation was the lack of appropriate sources for such studies.
On one hand, the sources for analysing the history of childhood are relatively scarce; on the other
hand, the sources that exist do not often provide much information. Thus, in order to reconstruct the
functioning of a child in those times a researcher must confront numerous sources concerning
various aspects of town life. The sources include the legal sources (statutes, constitutions) as well as
court, iconographic, school, personal/private, statistical, archeological and material sources. Their
diversity and informative value depends on the size and wealth of a particular town. Bigger and
more affluent cities produced more sources but they also did more for children, especially those who
found themselves in a difficult situation – abandoned, orphaned or harmed.
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Childchood, Poland, 16th–18th Century
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Biuletyn Historii Wychowania, 2011, nr 27, s.6-17.