Accusations, petitions, court files, and judgments are valuable sources for studying past societies because they present the views and voices of the social groups involved. By expressing the particular viewpoint of the party that holds power and establishes the norms – whether legal or social – as well as the arguments of the accused, they represent valuable tools for investigating environments and cultures, dynamics, and social relations. Using the documentation from a feudal archive, a particular social group was examined: the young people from the village of Tomaj. The transition from childhood to adulthood was considered a period of self-construction in a complicated spatial dimension and social context, which every child had to learn. They had to learn how to use language and adhere to rules – partly gender-specific and partly common – that they would practice as adults. In this sense, the young shared a horizon defined by common values, among which honour had a central place. The period of youth was experienced differently by girls and boys. The two groups were affected by the ideological models and norms of behaviour that enforced a strict separation between genders and the inequality of roles, both in the restricted family sphere and in the extended sphere of the general society. In this regard, it is notable that young males were allowed to disrupt the order of habitual normality through a ritualised disorder defined by customs.