In the 18th century, the common memory and knowledge of rural communities still depended on the oral transmission of messages, and therefore on rumour. Likewise, one’s honour and social reputation often depended on gossip or rumour. Gossip is a type of communication where two or more people discuss the social reputation or the so-called repute of a third person. If this information were to spread among other people, we can speak of rumours or slander. This contribution focuses on the characteristics of rumours directly related to an individual and his/her family. Reputation and honour represented the key identity of the individual in early modern period. Also the poor relief depended on the level of social capital and reputation of the individual.
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Article deals with the formal milestones, which divided childhood from adolescence. She analyses the legal status of the adolescents as it evident and revealed from political theory of cameralism and servants’ legislation. In political theory the adolescence was perceived as a stage of life with lowest poverty risks. But in reality was the poverty risk quite spread. She underlines three main characteristic of this relationships: limitations of their spatial mobility, supervision on morality of young people and the definition of legal relationships between servants and their masters.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2021843