Sejmiki ekspedycyjne Zgromadzenia szlacheckie w czasie wypraw pospolitego ruszenia (na przykładzie 1672 roku)
The expeditionary dietines (sejmiks) Noblemen’s assemblies during the mass levy expeditions (based on an example of the year 1672)

Summary/Abstract: Noblemen’s assemblies that took place during the expeditions of the noble mass levy (Polish pospolite ruszenie) should in fact fall under the category of dietine (sejmik), and not congress or rally. Included in that group ought to be only those dietines that proceeded during the mass levy excursions. As opposed to other dietines, whose participants traditionally gathered in churches, castles, or town halls, the expeditionary dietines took place “in the field,” that is, under the open sky. The expeditionary dietines were carried out at each stage of mass levy expeditions and the noblemen gathered in a camp to partake in them. Especially important for this kind of dietines was the year 1672, when the Crown’s final mass levy expedition of the 17th century was undertaken. From the moment of popisy (a show of levies’ military force), which mostly took place in August, up until the return from the main military camp near Lublin during the first half of November 1672, the noblemen many a time assembled in expeditionary dietines. Subsequent expeditionary dietines were called over the period of interregnum of the years 1696—1697, when electoral mass levy gathered.

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