Lecture 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 Frenc erotic novels in Carniola, who and why accumulated the largest collection of banned books etc.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 34813741The 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.
B.06 Other
COBISS.SI-ID: 34813485