This study is made up from three parts: 1) The pre-1848 rural scribe as cultural and social type. 2) His communicated and uncommunicated view of the world. 3) Pre-1848 rural scribes and modernity. Author perceives the pre-1848 period as "golden age" of Czech-language rural scribes, who were already able to read and write, but semiotic literary rules played only complementary role in their written records.
Their relation to the modernity was neutral, because it was only rarely the part of their appropriated world.