The town of Brody as a trade centre in the late 16th – mid 17th century
Journal Title: Історія торгівлі, податків та мита - Year 2018, Vol 17, Issue 1
Abstract
Despite quite a rich historiography of its history, the town of Brody still lacks the research about its trade past. Therefore the necessity of the paper devoted to this topic should not be disputed if the gap is to be filled. It is true that a few historians, especially Ivan Sozanskyi, had researched some aspects of the issue but the commercial activities of town’s visitors have not been investigated so far. A close examination of the problem presented above testifies that Brody was an important trade centre in mentioned period. The bulk of the paper is based on the town’s magistrate books which are housed in the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in the city of Lviv. The documents from the magistrate collection very rarely provide us with ample evidence of the trade in the town. In most cases we are forced to work with scant mentions upon which an understanding of town Brody as trade centre was built. First and foremost this research aims to clarify the question of town fairs. Though the literature sources contain controversial information concerning this issue, the examination of town charts revealed that in the first years of settlement existence three fairs were established. Afterwards, during the Łukasz Żółkiewski’s rule, fair periods were transformed and secured in the chart of 1629 by Stanisław Koniecpolski. The most ancient magistrate book did not contain any facts about guest traders in the town. Moreover, there is a lacuna in the sources spanning 1603–1620, so the first subsequent evidence appears only in the second half of 1620s. Thus, up to the year 1665 almost 200 mentions about the presence and activity of the town’s visitors have been found. Following the analysis of all these mentions, we have compiled a list of places from which traders arrived in Brody. We have also reconstructed a range of goods, offered in the town market. Apart from that, a careful examination of the magistrate books gives us a valuable insight into merchants’ everyday life in Brody. In this respect two major areas can be distinguished. The first one shows us trade process in minute detail. The second one illuminates vendors’ leisure time after the arrangement of their commercial deals. Some other questions related to the trade history are covered in this paper as well: in more specific terms they are such as control of the trade activites, exerted by the local officials, taxation on the vendors, the difficulties traders faced outside and inside Brody, localisation of the town on the trade routes.
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Ю. О. Турега
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