The discussion is based on the comparison of reports from Late Antique historiography concerning the Antique history of the region with reports in mediaeval chronicles, and with reports in the three historiographical works from this area. The research shows that after a break in literary production lasting several centuries (from the 7th to the 12th century) a great deal of historical memory was lost. In their accounts, mediaeval authors (1.) significantly abridged the Late Antique history of the region and (2.) partially adapted it to their time by introducing contemporary mediaeval themes.
COBISS.SI-ID: 41251426
The discussion reveals how the national formation of Slovenes at the end of the 18th century also led to the national understanding of history and to its retrograde nationalisation and mythicisation. Perceived thus, the principality of Carantania was seen as the state of Slovenes, and the Prince's Stone as a symbol of ancient Slovene statehood, democracy, and freedom, which turned it into one of the most recognisable national symbols.
COBISS.SI-ID: 39838306
The Slovene linguist and philologist Vatroslav Oblak (1864-1896) who made dialectological fieldwork research in Macedonia in the autumn of 1891, in the letters sent to his friends he described Thessalonica as an incredibly dirty city while its citizens as »two-footed, shouting, and stinky beasts (»these are not people«). Oblak's conception of the »filthy Orient« entirely lacks consideration of what the local population »thought of themselves«. The complex human reality in Macedonia was touched upon trough an uncritical »essentialist stance«, so typical of orientalism (E. W. Said).
COBISS.SI-ID: 39814498
The author discussed the emigration of Slovenes from occupied Styria during World War II; emigration of Germans from Kočevje; emigration of Slovene population from the Italian-occupied zone and of the Slovenes, Germans, and Jews from the Hungarian-occupied zone. He has analysed the the emigration of Carinthian Slovenes during World War II; has presented in greater detail the issue of the ezul, exiles of Italian descent from the Slovene Littoral and Istria during the war and after it; the fate of the German population in Slovenia and the fate of the Slovene home guard.
COBISS.SI-ID: 39827810
The book from the point of view of social and cultural history deals with several aspects and contents of everyday life of the nobilities in Carniola. Through the analysis of probate inventories, wills, marriage contracts, private corespondence, private journals and other documents it reveals emotional aspects and functioning of the noble family, marriage strategies and ritual of courting typical of the nobilities, the size and structure of the noble wealth, functions of different items used in the daily life and usage of languages.
COBISS.SI-ID: 246473216