National Humanities Development Program, call: National Heritage 12
Project no. NPRH/DN/SP/0241/2023/12
Principal investigator: dr hab. Piotr Guzowski, prof. UwB
amount awarded: 1 487 712 PLN
project duration: 2024-2029
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The aim of the project is the critical edition of 17th-century Lithuanian economic inventories, along with an online spatial database and a dedicated GIS application. These inventories are essential sources not only for the history of fiscal administration but also for various aspects of economic history, historical demography, and historical geography. Unlike the regularly documented (e.g., during the royal inspections) royal estates in the Crown, which have been published in a monumental series, the economic registers of royal estates in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were published sporadically and haphazardly. The 1589 parliamentary constitution distinguished the royal estates in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from those directly managed by royal officials or leased. These estates provided the king's livelihood, offering financial foundations and supplies. The project focuses on the critical edition of inventories from all six major royal estates before and after the mid-17th-century wars. Descriptions of the six Lithuanian economies will be published: the Brest starosty (1588), the Kobryn starosty (1618), the Shavli economy (1636), the Mogilev economy (1643), the Olicki economy (1649), the Grodno economy (1651), the Olicki economy (1663/1664), the Mogilev economy (1671), the Shavli economy (1673), the Kobryn economy (1679), the Brest economy (1680), and the Grodno economy (1680). In addition to the classical edition of these historical sources, the project will result in the creation of spatial databases for economic, demographic, and geographical data, which will be integrated with the GIS application.
