WOMEN’S WORLD HIDDEN IN WORDS: COMMUNICATIVE AND SPATIAL HORIZONS OF POLISH FEMALE MAGNATES IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE SEVENTEENth CENTURY

The article focuses on the women’s communicative and spatial horizons in early modern Eastern Europe; this topic has been poorly studied in the scientific literature. The main research objective is the quantitative and qualitative analysis of epistolographic material belonging to a typical representative of the seventeenth-century female elite in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the establishment of her geographic horizons in terms of the space in which she moved physically (mobility related to her lifelong travels) and mentally (geographic space close to her perceptions and far from them). Quantitative analyses were carried out mainly on the basis of correspondence from the period from 1620 to 1642 belonging to Katarzyna Zamoyska née Ostrogska, and, where possible, the results of the studies were compared with the findings of other researchers.