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Zgodovina za vse


This work by Aleksander Žižek is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

The article describes how two itinerant taw apprentices from Celje ran away from their guild masters who tried to force them (by imprisonment and beating) to continue to work for them. The apprentices found refuge with the taw guild in Graz which called the two masters to account for their maltreatment of the boys. The master craftsmen, in their turn, sought the protection of the Town Council of Celje. The dispute grew into an acrimonious hail of abuse and accusations from both sides and eventually, the state authorities had to intervene in it. Much to the relief of all concerned parties, the matter was forgotten after a year of investigation (in 1753).