TY - JOUR TI - Obrońcy i ciemiężyciele, czyli o dualistycznym modelu historii chłopów (i niektórych jego niedostatkach z perspektywy historii literatury) AU - Kruk-Siwiec, Justyna TI - Obrońcy i ciemiężyciele, czyli o dualistycznym modelu historii chłopów (i niektórych jego niedostatkach z perspektywy historii literatury) AB - Defenders and Oppressors, or the Dualistic Model of Peasant History (and Some of Its Deficiencies from the Perspective of Literary History) Since the beginning, peasant studies in Poland have been an area of research determined to a particularly high degree by the socio-political context. These specific conditions for the development of this discipline have developed a characteristic narrative framework, which has a visible influence on the historiography devoted to  peasants. One such schema is the dualistic division of old-Polish writers into defenders and ideological oppressors of the lowest estate, particularly noticeable in the 19th and 20th-century historical literary research. This paper is an attempt to describe and at the same time deconstruct this division, considered here as one that is ahistorical and therefore hinders in-depth research on the old-Polish discourse on the peasant state. The conclusions present several other ways to study old texts on the peasantry. VL - 2019 IS - Tom 21, zeszyt 1 (50) 2019 PY - 2019 SN - 2082-0984 C1 - 2084-3844 SP - 41 EP - 65 DO - 10.4467/20843844TE.19.002.10502 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/terminus/artykul/obroncy-i-ciemiezyciele-czyli-o-dualistycznym-modelu-historii-chlopow-i-niektorych-jego-niedostatkach-z-perspektywy-historii-literatury KW - peasants KW - historiography KW - old-Polish literature KW - peasant studies