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23:51 Jul 21, 2018 |
Polish to English translations [PRO] Social Sciences - History | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D. United States Local time: 08:09 | ||||||
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part-village owning petty noble//partial nobility Explanation: petty nobility (drobna szlachta), owners of a part of a village or owning no land at all, often referred to by a variety of colourful Polish terms such as: szaraczkowa - grey nobility, from their grey, woollen, uncoloured zupans okoliczna - local nobility, similar to zaściankowa zagrodowa - from zagroda, a farm, often little different from a peasant's dwelling zagonowa - from zagon, a small unit of land measure, hide nobility cząstkowa - partial, owners of only part of a single village panek - little pan (i.e. lordling), term used in Kaszuby, the Kashubian region, also one of the legal terms for legally separated lower nobility in late medieval and early modern Poland hreczkosiej - buckwheat sowers - those who had to work their fields themselves. zaściankowa - from zaścianek, a name for plural nobility settlement, neighbourhood nobility. Just like hreczkosiej, zaściankowa nobility would have no peasants. brukowa - cobble nobility, for those living in towns like townsfolk gołota - naked nobility, i.e. the landless. Gołota szlachta would be considered the 'lowest of the high'. http://www.almanachdegotha.org/id221.html ccccc The nobility (szlachta) of Poland included petty nobility known as drobna szlachta. These were owners of a part of a village or owning no land at all, often referred to by a variety of colourful Polish terms such as: cząstkowa – partial, owners of only part of a single village https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petty_nobility cc 18th century almost completely eliminated the so-called partial nobility. (i.e., such that one family held only one part of a village), https://www.jstor.org/stable/20754957?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co... ccccccccccccccc ??? Rutkowski describes the differences between the upper nobility, that is, the seigniors (panowie) or magnates (magnaci); the middle nobility (szlachta czastkowa)', and the lesser nobility (drobna szlachta). https://dokumen.tips/documents/the-modern-world-system-ii.ht... |
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fractional village owner, petty (noble) landowner/landholder, petty gentry Explanation: ... he would have been reduced to a fractional village owner if he had had to share the family patrimony of two little villages with his several brothers - https://goo.gl/xVTjvk - page 36 ---- "Not a bit!" interrupted Bucket, "for he is an upstart that rose from being a petty landholder. - https://archive.org/stream/pantadeuszorthel28240gut/28240-pd... --- The paucity of information on petty to middling estates, from, say, a fraction of a village to three or four villages, remains a major obstacle to a full investigation of the peasant condition - https://goo.gl/fuS3xU |
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Heir of a property fraction Explanation: IMO "cząstkowy" refers to this circumstance: a fraction/fragment/part of a property (land, villages, etc.) owned by her/his late parents, without going deeper into details. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 dzień 16 godz. (2018-07-23 16:19:35 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Nobility remained nobility - despite that sometimes the 'fractional heir/ess' was nearly as poor as the 'souls' =human component of the property. |
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