Udział chłopów w życiu Wielunia w pierwszej połowie XVI wieku
Streszczenie
The town is the place where from the outset, ways of life of different social
states were crossing. New town – dwellers were coming not only from other
town centers but also from nobility and peasants. Usually, in investigations on
history of social nobility's composition, representatives of nobility connected
with town are being observed. However, here I would like to concentrate on the
problem of peasants participation in Wielun's life, to see in which context their
existing in the oldest books of this town was written down. Generally, connections
of peasants with town can be divided into 3 cathegories. First category was
nobility who came from the village. For some time they were having contacts
with their family living still in that village. The second group were people who
came to town for short periods. They were forced to take care of economic or /
and religious matters. The last category were peasants living in villages belonging
to town.