The expectations consist of four basic components\: genealogical determinant \(determined by birth\)\; personality determinant \(visible in personal virtues\)\; occupational determinant \(determining professionalism in performing held offices and positions\)\; and socio\-religious determinant \(allowing positive existence in the frameworks established by the state, Church, class, as well as micro\-community, i.e. neighbors, friends, and family. The very concept of model of decorum is both a stable and a changeable value. Its stability is determined by an indisputable co\-existence of particular components, while its changeability by relativism and relevance of formulated judgements as well as shifts in gravity, dictated by historical processes.

Role model or model of decorum? A contribution to a new definition formulated from the point of view of a historian on the example of the Polish gentry at the turn of the Middle Ages and modern times

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Wzorzec osobowy czy wzorzec postępowania? Przyczynek do nowej definicji formułowanej z punktu widzenia historyka na przykładzie szlachty polskiej przełomu średniowiecza i czasów nowożytnych =

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