The Past of the Demographic Conversion Factors for the Middle Ages Tax Sources Cover Image

Przeszłość przeliczników demograficznych dla szesnastowiecznych źródeł podatkowych
The Past of the Demographic Conversion Factors for the Middle Ages Tax Sources

Author(s): Krzysztof Boroda
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Sociology, Local History / Microhistory, Social history, Culture and social structure , History and theory of sociology, Social Theory
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: population; the Kingdom of Poland; demographic conversion factors; urban population; rural population; Adolf Pawiński

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the demographic conversion factors that have been used for a hundred years in the research on Poland’s population of the second half of the 16th century. The forerunner of research in that sphere and the editor of basic sources was Adolf Pawiński; his proposal for the conversion factors was criticised by many researchers, among others Włodzimierz Czerkawski, Witold Kula, Irena Gieysztorowa. After a hundred-year discussion it may be said that «Źródła Dziejowe» and the method of computing urban populations used by Pawiński are not the recommended tools; similarly, demographic conversion factors for rural populations should be modified or specified.

  • Issue Year: 37/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 27-52
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Polish