Kopacze: grabarze morowi w miastach Rzeczypospolitej XVI–XVIII wieku
Plague gravediggers in Polish towns in the 16th–18th century The article analyzes a group of low functionaries employed during epidemics, frequent in the early modern era, the so-called plague gravediggers. Their task was to transport the bodies of epidemic victims to special cemeteries and bury...
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Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences
2014-07-01
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| author | Andrzej Karpiński |
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| description | Plague gravediggers in Polish towns in the 16th–18th century
The article analyzes a group of low functionaries employed during epidemics, frequent in the early modern era, the so-called plague gravediggers. Their task was to transport the bodies of epidemic victims to special cemeteries and bury them in mass graves. The gravediggers came from the lowest urban classes; they wore special clothes to single them out and were relatively well paid for their dangerous job. Depending on the duration of the epidemics the town had to employ from several to about twenty gravediggers. They were deeply despised by urban communities since they often behaved brutally and were suspected of robbing the dead. Furthermore, they were sometimes accused of spreading the disease intentionally, which led to court trials and bloody executions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-00f434bf364e4cf79a777109add911452022-12-21T17:16:38ZengInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of SciencesKwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej0023-58812719-64962014-07-01623Kopacze: grabarze morowi w miastach Rzeczypospolitej XVI–XVIII wiekuAndrzej Karpiński0Instytut Historyczny Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927 WarszawaPlague gravediggers in Polish towns in the 16th–18th century The article analyzes a group of low functionaries employed during epidemics, frequent in the early modern era, the so-called plague gravediggers. Their task was to transport the bodies of epidemic victims to special cemeteries and bury them in mass graves. The gravediggers came from the lowest urban classes; they wore special clothes to single them out and were relatively well paid for their dangerous job. Depending on the duration of the epidemics the town had to employ from several to about twenty gravediggers. They were deeply despised by urban communities since they often behaved brutally and were suspected of robbing the dead. Furthermore, they were sometimes accused of spreading the disease intentionally, which led to court trials and bloody executions.https://journals.iaepan.pl/khkm/article/view/79516-18 w. -- Polskaepidemie w o. nowożytnyminstrukcje przeciw epidemiicmentarze pomorowe o. nowożytnego -- Polskagrabarze morowi nowożytniubiór grabarzy morowych |
| spellingShingle | Andrzej Karpiński Kopacze: grabarze morowi w miastach Rzeczypospolitej XVI–XVIII wieku Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej 16-18 w. -- Polska epidemie w o. nowożytnym instrukcje przeciw epidemii cmentarze pomorowe o. nowożytnego -- Polska grabarze morowi nowożytni ubiór grabarzy morowych |
| title | Kopacze: grabarze morowi w miastach Rzeczypospolitej XVI–XVIII wieku |
| title_full | Kopacze: grabarze morowi w miastach Rzeczypospolitej XVI–XVIII wieku |
| title_fullStr | Kopacze: grabarze morowi w miastach Rzeczypospolitej XVI–XVIII wieku |
| title_full_unstemmed | Kopacze: grabarze morowi w miastach Rzeczypospolitej XVI–XVIII wieku |
| title_short | Kopacze: grabarze morowi w miastach Rzeczypospolitej XVI–XVIII wieku |
| title_sort | kopacze grabarze morowi w miastach rzeczypospolitej xvi xviii wieku |
| topic | 16-18 w. -- Polska epidemie w o. nowożytnym instrukcje przeciw epidemii cmentarze pomorowe o. nowożytnego -- Polska grabarze morowi nowożytni ubiór grabarzy morowych |
| url | https://journals.iaepan.pl/khkm/article/view/795 |
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