General surveys and sources
There are no general surveys that concentrate exclusively on the history of Galicia during the era of Polish rule. The closest to such a survey is the chronicle of events undertaken as part of a lifetime project by Antin Petrushevych.
Four of his volumes and the beginnings of a fifth cover the years 1500 to 1549 and 1600 to 1772.'1 Petrushevych’s incomplete chronicle for the sixteenth century was published posthumously by
While there may be no general surveys of the era of Polish rule, in contrast, the amount and quality of published sources is better than for any other period of Galician history. The Soviet Ukrainian scholars Ivan Kryp”iakevych, Mykola Koval’s’kyi, and laroslav Isaievych have prepared comprehensive guides to the wide variety of published sources about Galicia before 1772.[233] [234] Numerous collections of documents exist on the history of the church, the brotherhood movement, the Khmel’nyts’kyi era, and the city of L’viv.[235] Of a more general nature are four collections, which deal with manorial administration, urban life, legal questions, and the socioeconomic conditions of the peasantry from the mid-fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries.[236] The most ambitious undertaking of documentary sources is found in the twenty-five volumes from local castle (grodzkie) and regional (ziemskie) court registers found in the Bernardine Archive in L’viv and compiled by Polish scholars beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century. The first nine volumes contain documents from the years 1244 to 1768 that deal with problems of manorial land administration and city life. Volumes eleven through nineteen contain the results of court proceedings from tribunals at Sanok, 1423-1552 (volumes 11 and 16); Halych, 1435-1475 (volume 12); Przemysl and Przeworsk, 1436-1506 (volumes 13 and 18);L’viv, 1440-1500 (volumes 14-15); Przemysl and L’viv, 1469-1506 (volume 17); and Przeworsk, 1458-1506 (volume 19). The last six volumes contain the proceedings of the dietines (sejmik!) at Sudova Vyshnia, 1572-1732 (volumes 20-22); Sudova Vyshnia, L’viv, Przemysl, Sanok, 1731-1772 (volume 23); and Halych, 1575-1772 (volumes 24-25).[237]