Things in the Environment of Rich Noblewomen in the Eighteenth-Century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Reflections on the book by Bożena Popiołek From the Sense of Beauty, from the Need to Own. Women's world of things in the eighteenth-century Polish-Lith

Abstract

The article analyzes Bożena Popiołek's book From the Sense of Beauty, from the Need to Own. Women's world of things in the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Wilanów 2024). It briefly presents the author's achievements to date, the structure of the analyzed work and its scientific value. In the second part, the article includes reflections extending the author's findings with selected contexts related mainly to Bernardine monks, as well as the bourgeoisie and petty nobility. It turns out that the models of behavior appropriate to the aristocracy at first, over time embracing the whole society, reached even the poor monks.