1st Edition
Roma-Gypsy Presence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 15th - 18th centuries
By Lech Mróz
Copyright 2017
332 Pages
by
Central European University Press
This is an analysis of 166 original and previously unpublished documents dating from the very first mention of a Gypsy in 1401 up to the year 1 765. These documents range from royal decrees thru lawsuits to entries in municipal records. Some were written in Polish but many are in Latin, German or Ruthenian. They tell the story of not only the Gypsies living in Poland, but also of those who now... Read more
Preface and Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1: The Arrival of the Gypsies to Poland, Chapter 2: Gypsies in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th Century, Chapter 3: Piotr Rotemberg—A Philistine from Egypt Minor, with His Company, Chapter 4: “That there should be no Gypsies in the Crown”—Times of Repressions, Chapter 5: Cultural Adaptation of Gypsies in the 17th Century, Chapter 6: Gypsy Kings and Elders, Chapter 7: Gypsies as a Criminal Element in the 18th Century, Chapter 8: Gypsies at the Landed Properties of the Sanguszko and Radziwill Families, Conclusions, Source Materials, References, Register for Geographical Names, Index
Biography
Lech Mróz is Professor Emeritus at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of History, former Head of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, advisor to the Roma Association in Poland, and co-founder of the Roma History Institute.
