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Strangely, Poland was left largely unafected by the Black Death so the cause of this social arrngement wasn't there. The high regard for peasants in Poland con
by jxub 8y ago
Strangely, Poland was left largely unafected by the Black Death so the cause of this social arrngement wasn't there.
The high regard for peasants in Poland contrasted with the neighboring East Slavic countries like Russia probably because of the influence of their Mongol rulers, but in the origin Slavic cultures were quite egalitarian and benevolent.
- wozmirek 8y agoDisagree with the high regard. As you said, it's not russian type of servitude/slavery, but at the same time, being a Polish (well, not really Polish - living in a land of a certain polish-slavic ruler) peasant was bad. If the plague hit Poland, then... but that's a what-if ;) I find the difference is really well explained by the description of the Refeudalization process [1]. source: being Polish, currently living in Berlin [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refeudalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refeudalization
- jxub 8y agoThere was a class of well-off peasants who had fairly comfortably lives, but for the most part I think you're right as that part of my argument was really hand-wavy.
- chewz 8y agoIt isn't strange that Poland wasn't affected by Black Death. King Casimir the Great have introduced sanitary cordon and quarantined cross-border travelers. https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/16699/why-was-poland-spared-from-the-black-death https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/16699/why-was-po...