Late in 2012, head of the project wrote the Initiative for the modification of historically false memorial tablet near the Town Hall in Ljubljana, set up in memory of the burning of Protestant books in 1600 on that spot. The tablet involved false information about the date of the event and about the number and language of destroyed books. The Initiative was signed by 22 experts in Reformation and Counter-Reformation from the fields of history, history of literature, history of art, musicology, philology, library science, and law. On the basis of the Initiative and his article »Two burnings of Protestant books in Ljubljana in 1600 in 1601«, published in periodical Kronika, the head carried into effect in 2013 the modification of the tablet in accordance with the Municipality Ljubljana. The inscription is now historically correct.
F.29 Contribution to the development of national cultural identity
COBISS.SI-ID: 36567597The interview presented the results of a research on reception of prohibited books in the time of Counter-Reformation in Slovenian lands. The reasearch showed several inaccuracies in earlier estimations of that period, namely about content, amount, location, and language of burned books. Such books had been largely controversial theological books, banned by the Roman Index, and not all Protestant books in general. A few hundreds, not a few thousands were burned, especially in Ljubljana. A majority of them was German, not Slovenian. Slovenian books amounted to 10 percent.
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
COBISS.SI-ID: 34813485Lecture was held in authentic Baroque milieu of the Seminary library in Ljubljana in front of the large audience. It explained, how had forbidden books in 18th century circulated in spite of formal prohibition by the Church and by the state. The audience had a rare oportunity to see some of once prohibited prints and to hear some of unknown or barely known historical facts: which Slovenian had been classified »the heretic of the first class« in the Roman Index, why had Dalmatin's translation of the Bible never been – in spite of common belief – prohibited and burned, why had Tomaž Hren (the most powerful antagonist of the Protestants) kept Protestant books in his private library, who had imported French erotic novels in Carniola, who and why accumulated the largest collection of banned books etc.
B.04 Guest lecture
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