This was the first exhibition in Slovenia, devoted to the censorship in the early modern period. It included 28 exhibits that are described in accompanying publication. One can still examine them, since they are accessible in digitized form in special website. The exhibition attracted the attention of domestic and foreign visitors (since it was bilingual, in Slovenian and English), of scientific and general public. It was visited by more than 10000 visitors and widely covered by the media, including newspapers Delo and Dnevnik, RTV Slovenija and Kanal A.
F.28 Organising an exhibition
COBISS.SI-ID: 297753088Collaborators made use of the project conference to present the results of their research of individual cases: forbidden mariological works by Schönleben (M. Deželak Trojar), Ferrante Pallavicino’s books in Carniola (L. Vidmar), Valvasor’s auto censorship (B. Golec), forbidden books in monastic libraries in Styria (N. Ditmajer), censorship of Slovenian Late Baroque literature in the age of Enlightenment (M. Ogrin), Jernej Kopitar, Matija Čop, and censorship of Krajnska čbelica (M. Juvan), controversial philosophical and political works by English, American, and French authors in the Lyceum Library in Ljubljana (S. Svoljšak), and Slovenian literati and Imperial censorship (M. Dović).
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 42971949The head of the project co-edited a monograph Theology of the Reformer Primož Trubar by Gerhard Giesemann with special regard to the fate of Trubar’s theological works in Inner Austria under the Catholic princes. The monograph deals with the theology of Primož Trubar and thus fills the only major research gap in the study of works written by the important Slovenian Protestant. Author discusses the question of sources of Trubar’s theological writings and the question of their originality. For this purpose, he analyses primarily Trubar’s catechisms, Slovenian and German introductions to biblical translations, and the Church order.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 297699840The lecture »Les livres censurés dans les bibliotheques slovenes au XVIIIe siecle«, presented at the international conference »Les régions slovenes entre XVIIIe et XIXe siecles: plurilinguisme et transferts culturels a la frontiere entre empire des Habsbourg et Venise« at the University of Tours, described the distribution of books, forbidden by the Roman Index librorum prohibitorum and the Austrian Catalogus librorum a Commissione Aulica prohibitorum, in Slovenia in the early modern period. It described three categories of forbidden books: religiously, politically, and morally suspicious books.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 42492205The paper, presented at the international conference »Maria Theresia (1717?1780): Enlightened Reformer and Grandmother of Central Europe«, discussed the censorial policy of the empress, which – in spite of secularization – did not automatically bring liberalization: Austrian censorship of books – in comparison with the censorship of books in France and several principalities of the Holy Roman Empire – was quite restrictive, the volume of the state index of prohibited books grew with each edition, and basic tendency remained Catholic, in accordance with the views of the Empress. Under the surface of the system of censorship, however, things were changing, often in contrast to the policy of Maria Theresa.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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