The authors have depicted 40 out of a hundred younger noble families on the basis of four criteria; the acquisition of the royal title after the fall of the Sacrum Romanum Imperium in 1806, the adequate amount of data, their connections with the Slovenian lands and their readiness to fill the information gaps. The book describes the less-known noble families that remained in Slovenia after World War II, if they had not died out before. The royal title was received as the reward for outstanding achievements in the services for the State and the Kaiser. The royal title was related to the individuals that had stood out form mediocrity, and also gained a special role in the making of history.
COBISS.SI-ID: 270466560
In the book "Die Ehre des Herzogthums Crain", Janez Vajkard Valvasor published a report on the demonstration of the spirit of the deceased Mary Elizabeth Gallenberg in the castles Novi dvor and Stari dvor by Radeče. In the apparitions of the spirit between January 15th and 25th 1684 we recognize for thousands of years known and described the paranormal phenomenon. Apparitions of 1684 are one of the oldest well-described and investigated paranormal events in Slovenia, which are not derived from the ecclesiastical milieu or religious miracles and apparitions of sacred persons, but from the lay milieu. By studying such phenomena, it was possible to reconstruct the important social paradigms, in particular the relationship to death. These events give image of interlacing collective consciousness of high and popular culture, a problem of mutual contamination of theology and homiletics by popular perceptions of death, souls and purgatory.
COBISS.SI-ID: 268611328
A couple of years ago the author of the present article ruled out the possibility that the Carniolan polymath Janez Vajkard Valvasor (1641–1693) died in the so-called Valvasor´s house in Krško, on the front of which was attached in 1894 a built-in commemorative plaque. The author has then managed to establish with a great deal a certainty that the polymath´s last home was actually the house located some ten metres away from the wrongly identified hous. The purpose of the monograph is to shed light on the history of both houses based on the available data and to clarify any possible dilemmas regarding which of the two houses is the right one. The study focuses mainly on the issue of two the so-called Valvasor´s house during the polymath´s lifetime and on the history of the house that was actually owned by Valvasor.
COBISS.SI-ID: 269888512
The article makes the evaluation of the mediaeval account books from the Slovenian lands as a source for environmental history. It concentrates on various types, the quality and quantity of the information given by the account books. The potential themes regard various problematic of the economic history, which does not exclude any other spheres of the human intervention in nature and the coexistence between the two systems. One of the most important potentials of the account books is the fact that they are the ground for quantitative; by combining them with other sources for medieval history their potential is even greater. The research potential of the account books in combination with archaeology, physics, chemical and biological analyses has not yet been evaluated and exploited.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36687149
The chapter treats the Slovenian national historiography and national collective memory of World War I , which argely depended on the state framework in which the Slovenian national community lived after 1918, as well as on the social system of the Yugoslav state after World War II. War experiences, were determined by the political circumstances. World War I is generally considered to have become the constitutive element of the Slovenian 20th-century history only since the 1980s, whereas the period immediately after World War I, during the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, was marked especially by memorial discussions of themes that formed the constitutive foundation of the Yugoslav state community.
COBISS.SI-ID: 35913005