Czuły gospodarz, pszczela praca i porządek jako proces w „Ekonomice ziemiańskiej generalnej” (1675) Jakuba Kazimierza Haura
A Caring Steward, Bee Work, and Order as a Process in Jakub Kazimierz Haur’s „General Gentry Economy” (1675)

Summary/Abstract: This article analyzes a passage from the seventeenth-century agronomic treatise General Gentry Economy (1675) by Jakub Kazimierz Haur, in which the author offers a brief praise of the beehive as a model of a well-organized estate. Although at first glance the passage may appear to be a conventional reiteration of familiar observations about the cultural significance of the bee in early modern literature and thought, situating it within the broader context of the treatise reveals its function as a conceptual tool for articulating Haur’s views on the role of the steward, the nature of his labor, and the place of animals in political imagination.

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