Zawodowość jako podstawowa kategoria wartościowania osób w siedemnastowiecznych statutach cechów krakowskich

Abstract

From among rich vocabulary of seventeenth-century statutes of craft guilds the author chose and analyzed a few words and expressions functioning used for estimating people. These are names referring to master craftsmen as well as to craftsmen who were not members of a guild. The lexical items reflect a part of the value system that existed in craftsman society in which experience, familiarity with a craft, and fulfilling all conditions required by the guild law were the most respected. The most important level of estimating people was the category of occupation that was closely connected both with legal practice of a craft and being a member of a guild.