Wzorzec moralnego chłopa. Analiza obyczajowości XIX wiecznego chłopa w oparciu o literaturę dla ludu

Abstract

The paper discusses customs of Polish countryside inhabitants in partitioned Poland. The author presents some aspects of social life, morality and folk culture. Popular literature has played very important role in education of pesants, not only in agriculture and technology but also in teaching of ethics. For historicians popular literature (handbooks, calendars, brochures) is an important source of knowledge. Such analysis gives us a lot of informations about good and bad sides of everydaylife of countrymen in the past.