Nobility, which in the Middle Ages represented the top social elite in the political, authoritative and economic sense, was crucially connected with mediaeval towns. The present treatise discusses the role of the nobility in towns, analyses its relationship towards burghers and their interactive social mobility; structural differences among Istrian towns which have continuity of settlement since Antiquity, towns emerging in Slovene inland and Pannonian towns of Slavonia are discussed in a comparative context.
COBISS.SI-ID: 44300130
The present work deals with everyday lives of Carniolan nobility from the end of the 17th century to the 1760s; various forms of everyday life are presented, e.g. familial relationship, marriage strategies, dwelling culture and use of languages. A considerable part of the work deals with nobility and noble families of Carniolan towns, especially Ljubljana, Novo mesto and Škofja Loka.
COBISS.SI-ID: 246473216
The treatise deals with the issue of religiosity in the Early Middle Ages, the period in which religion represented the central mindset axis of social life. The relationship between religious individuals and their confessional-political environment represents the central problem of the period; history is able to explain it by means of an analysis of the then political culture and other mindset patterns. The author presents theoretical backgrounds for the analysis; he illustrates their validity by analysing religious and social conceptions of the Slovene Protestant elite.
COBISS.SI-ID: 40694626
Mediaeval didactic literature serves as a basis for the author who takes readers into the world of education of women belonging to the circle of mediaeval urban elites. Although in the late Middle Ages several authors started to speak in favour of the education of women, for girls turning into accomplished women reading and writing was far less important than her ability to run a household and, if necessary, husbandry, or oversee the work on fields and livestock barns, and skilfully nursing the sick.
COBISS.SI-ID: 44941666
The author deals with the mediaeval nobility of the island of Rab and the structure of power in the Commune of Rab in the Middle Ages which set itself apart from the structure of other east Adriatic (Venetian) communes. Nobility and non-noble citizens were jointly in power; the Great Council of the Commune consisted of both noblemen and non-noble citizens. The present work represents an excellent example of a study of local environment for broad social issues.