The Slovenian Research Agency declared the monograph an exceptional scientific achievement in 2012 in the humanities – historiography. The monograph on the changing identity of the population in eastern parts of Slovenia between the 16th and 19th centuries attracted much attention and has been almost sold out. It has received several favourable reviews at home and abroad. In 2015, it will be translated into English and published by the international publishing house Peter Lang.
E.01 National awards
COBISS.SI-ID: 262959360Miha Preinfalk is editor of two historical publications, of Kronika, a Review for Slovenian Local History; and of Bilten, published by Slovenian Society for Research of the 18th Century. In 2012 he edited a comprehensive theme issue of Kronika with the title »From the History of Slovenian Castles« and he also organized a conference on that topic that met a wide response. The topic is closely connected with some of the leading humanists of the Slovenian territory, as many of them were noblemen with their own castles as centres of humanistic activity. That holds especially for the polymath Johann Weikhard Valvasor (Bogenšperk/Wagensberg), the Maecenas Sigmund Zois (Brdo/Egg), and Josef Kalasanz Erberg, whose manor Lustthal was famous for its artistic, collectionary and to some extent also scientific activity in a broader Central European territory. In 2014 Preinfalk conceived a new book series “Castellologica Slovenica” within the framework of the collection of scientific monographs of the Milko Kos Historical Institute ZRC SAZU “Thesaurus memoriae”.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 263437312Matija Ogrin and Tomaž Erjavec presented at international conferences in Würzburg (2011) and Ljubljana (2012) the concept and methods for the production of a digital register and repository of Slovenian manuscripts of the 17th and 18h centuries. The register provides plenty of manuscript material to conduct research on Slovenian humanist authors. At the conferences, Ogrin and Erjavec explained the use of technologies on which the project’s editions on the leading humanists in the Slovenian territory are based. Matija Ogrin gave an invited lecture on this subject at the University of Sophia (2013).
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 33361453The major project of translating the basic work of the polymath J. V. Valvasor, Die Ehre deß Hertzogthums Crain (1689), was brought to completion with the publication of the comprehensive collection of scholarly papers Studia Valvasoriana. From altogether twenty discussions contained therein four were contributed by the members of the project group: Miha Preinfalk, Luka Vidmar, and Boris Golec. Preinfalk’s contribution focuses on Carniolan nobility and noble families in The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola, Vidmar’s on Valvasor’s most important work in culture in the Slovenian territory, and Golec’s discusses the Valvasor family in Carniola from the settlement of its founding member to the extinction, as well as the entire Valvasor’s posterity to the present day, with a special emphasis on the descendants’ attitude towards their famous ancestor. The collection of papers will provide a valuable source for generations of researchers and other users.
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
COBISS.SI-ID: 277618432The publication of Boris Golec’s scholarly monograph on Valvasor’s house in Krško Boris Golec led to the installation of two new memorial plaques in Krško in 2013: one on the newly discovered house in which the polymath J. V. Valvasor actually lived (the Mencinger House) and the other on the wrong Valvasor’s house, which nonetheless left an important mark on the cultural past of the city. On 5 March 2013, Boris Golec was the keynote speaker on the opening of the Mencinger House and the installation of the memorial plaque to J. V. Valvasor. As a member of the museum council of the Krško City Museum, he compiled an itinerary for Valvasor’s walking trail through Krško and its surroundings in 2014. Golec is also a co-author of the new permanent museum exhibition on Valvasor at the Bogenšperk Castle, which has been under gradual construction.
F.12 Improvements to an existing service
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