Elity osad prawa wołoskiego na Rusi Czerwonej Przemiany i trwanie (na przykładzie wsi Lubycza w województwie bełskim od XV do połowy XIX wieku)
The elites of the settlements on terms of Wallachian Law in Red Ruthenia. Changes and enduring (by example of Lubycza village in Bełz...)

Summary/Abstract: The article reviews the history of the peasant community inhabiting Lubycza in the OldPolish Bełz voivodeship, in the area of a widely understood Polish-Russian borderline between the 15th and 19th centuries. It follows from the considerations that there were the situations when particular peasant communities, their elites, to be more specific, manage to maintain privileges dating back to the Middle Ages, including economic and legal freedom, deriving from the settlement location on terms of Wallachian Law, despite pressure from the outside and economic-social trends dominating in the Old-Polish period. Further studies should concentrate on not only defining the scale of the very phenomenon, but also possibly showing the areas where the situations, like in Lubycza, happened more often. Currently, one can only presume that their existence could result from the location of such rural settlements at the borderlines understood not only in an ethnic, but also civilization sense. It is also unknown if this “experience” of the Middle Ages concerned royal lands exclusively or other categories of possession too.

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