Písmák jako sociokulturní typ // The peasant scribe as a socio-cultural type

Abstract

The paper examines the phenomenon of the peasant scribe, who can be characterised as a ‘transitional’ type of the country man of learning in the process of modernisation of Czech society in the 18th and the first half of the 19th century. His interpretations of events and processes are based on his experience of life and the world he lives in.

Keywords

• peasant scribe
• peasant scribe’s historical consciousness
• historiography
• modernisation of society