AD ANNOS DISCRETIONIS. DORASTANIE W MIASTACH PÓŹNOŚREDNIOWIECZNEJ POLSKI
AD ANNOS DISCRETIONIS. GROWING UP IN TOWNS AND CITIES OF LATE MEDIEVAL POLAND

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to analyse issues related to the perception of the age of majority in Polish towns in the fifteenth and first decades of the sixteenth century. Attaining the age of majority, i.e. the age of discretion (Latin: anni discretionis) was reg- ulated by law, and the term appears regu- larly in the registers of municipal courts and higher courts of German law. Therefore, the analysis of the source material makes it pos- sible to reconstruct the process of coming of age together with the rights and obligations related to it and allows us to observe differences and similarities in treating adolescent girls and boys.

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