Framing the Polish Family in the Past

Piotr Guzowski is a Scientific Secretary of the Center for the Study on Demographic and Economic Structures of Preindustrial Central and Eastern Europe at the University of Bialystok, Poland and member of the Faculty of History and International Relations of the University of Bialystok. He specializes in economic history, historical demography, and environmental history. He is the author of two books published in Polish: Chłopi i pieniądze na przełomie średniowiecza i czasów nowożytnych, Kraków 2008 [Peasants and money at the turn of the Middle Ages] and Rodzina szlachecka w Polsce przedrozbiorowej, Białystok 2019 [Noble family in Prepartition Poland. Demographic study]. Professor Cezary Kuklo is the Head of the Department of History of Demographic, Economic and Religious Structures at the Faculty of History and International Relations at the University of Bialystok and the director of the Center for the Study on Demographic and Economic Structures of Preindustrial Central and Eastern Europe at this University. He is also the chairman of the Commission for the History of Demographic and Social Structures of the Committee for Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Vice-president of the Polish Historical Society. He has published over 410 papers and 6 books, including: Demografia Rzeczypospolitej przedrozbiorowej, Warszawa 2009 [Demography of the Pre-Partition Commonwealth] and The population of the Holy Cross Parish in Warsaw in the 18 Century, Białystok 2016.

List of figures / List of tables / List of maps / List of contributors / 1. Introduction / Part 1 – Prepartition Poland and Polish-Lithuannian Commonwealth / 2. State, religion, law and family / 3. The peasant family / 4. The family in cities and towns / 5. The noble family / 6. The magnate family / 7. The Jewish family / Part II – Polish lands 1795-1945 / 8. Development of family law on Polish lands 1795-1945 / 9. The peasant family / 10. The urban family / 11. The landed nobility family / 12. The Jewish family in the 19th and early 20th centuries / Bibliography / Index