Mit srebrnej łyżeczki? Przedmioty prestiżowe w szlacheckich inwentarzach majątkowych z ksiąg grodzkich województwa krakowskiego w czasach saskich
The Silver Spoon Myth? Prestigious Objects in the Noble Property Inventories from the Borough Records of Krakow Voivodeship in Saxon Times

Summary/Abstract: The analysis conducted here is an attempt to characterize and determine the scale of references made to objects conferring prestige on their owners in noble post-mortem inventories from the first half of the eighteenth century. The author has examined how prestige was regarded in magnate circles and to extent to which the middle and lower nobility — whose inventories dominate in the analysed source material — imitated the lifestyle of the most wealthy. A thorough analysis of the preserved sources is a contribution to the characterization of the standard of living of the nobility and an attempt to determine the importance attached to the possession of certain kinds of movable property.

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