Видове наказания в българските възрожденски еснафски организации
Types of punishments in the Bulgarian National Revival guild organizations

Summary/Abstract: Every historical period has its own social and economical phenomenon which is descriptive for it. It is symbolic and contains in it characteristic and distinctive features of its time. Such a phenomenon, for the period of Revival in the Bulgarian lands is the Guild organizations with their order, with the specific relations between their members, social, economical and jurisdictional activity. Very important deductions and conclusions can be drawn from the gathered materials for the Guilds in the Bulgarian lands during the period of Revival and especially their Statutes and rules. The offender was subject to two groups of sanctions. On one hand he suffered a punishment to the Soul – Damnation, Punishment by Court of God, Curse. On the other hand the offender was punished with various secular penalties: to the property, physical, disgrace, administrative, distraint, excommunication, bringing to Turkish justice etc. Most often the imposed penalty was a fine in one of its varieties: financial or payment in kind.

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