Związki małżeńskie i pozamałżeńskie w armii koronnej i litewskiej w XVI i XVII stuleciu – prawo i stan faktyczny

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Lenkų kalba / Polish
Title:
Związki małżeńskie i pozamałżeńskie w armii koronnej i litewskiej w XVI i XVII stuleciu – prawo i stan faktyczny
Alternative Title:
Marriages and illegitimate relationships in the army of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the sixteenth and seventeenth century – the law and the practice
Authors:
Łopatecki, Karol
In the Journal:
Miscellanea Historico-Iuridica [MHI]. 2014, t. 13, z. 2, p. 47-71
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Kariuomenė / Armed forces; Moterys / Women; Teisės istorija / History of law; 13 amžius - 1569. Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė. LDK; 1569-1795. Lietuva ATR laikotarpiu; Lenkija (Poland); Lietuva (Lithuania).
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LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Armija; Kariuomenė; Karo teisė; Konkubinatas; Lenkija (Lenkijos karalystė. Kingdom of Poland. Poland); Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė (LDK; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; GDL); 16 amžius; 17 amžius; Moterys; Nesantuokiniai ryšiai; Prostitucija; Sekso vergės; Teisė; Army; Concubine; Illegitime relationships; Kingdom of Poland; Law; Lithuanian XVI-XVII c. history; Military; Military law; Prostitution; Sex slaves; The Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

ENThe article presents the legal regulations on the principles of women’s presence in the Polish and Lithuanian army in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Jan Tarnowski at the end of the first half of the sixteenth century introduced the first significant limitations on this matter. According to military law the only women that could exist in army were wives of soldiers and persons accompanying troops (e.g. merchants, servants). The soldiers did not reconciled with the limitations and began to exploit loopholes for their own purposes. Firstly, marriages were concluded, only to make possible prostitution in the army. Secondly, in many cases, soldiers declared that concubine or sexual slave is their married wife. Lawmakers were trying to refine the rules during the second half of sixteenth and first half of the seventeenth century. In a result (despite the difficulties and with the help of military law) in that period Polish and Lithuanian army had a small percentage of women, especially compared to Western armies. Periods when the practice was significantly different from the legal rules were periods of war. Then the soldiers treated the captured people as spoils of war. Some of the women were „military wives”, some were used as sex slaves. [From the publication]

DOI:
10.15290/mhi.2014.13.02.03
ISSN:
1732-9132; 2719-9991
Subject:
Istorija / History
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