Zrzeczenie się sum zastawnych w piętnastowiecznej Polsce – gest filantropii czy wyrachowania?
Renunciation of pledged sums in fifteenth-century Poland – a gesture of philanthropy or calculation?

Summary/Abstract: In the fifteenth century, even before the Executionist movement, after the actions of King Jagiełło and especially his son Władysław of Varna, the Polish state was heavily in debt. Five noblemen from the ruling elite of the era decided to renounce the sums bequeathed to them by the king on royal estates and to return these lands to the monarch. What were their motives? Was it a gesture of philanthropy or calculation?

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