The scientific monograph Dežela – knez – stanovi Province – Duke – Estates describes the formation of Carniolan provincial estates at the time when they completed their constitutional consolidation ...and obtained a constructive political equilibrium with the duke. The central part reconstructs the composition of the Carniolan estates within the first century of their existence and the operations of the provincial diet until the death of Emperor Maximilian I. The monograph covers almost two centuries of the late medieval and early modern political and constitutional history. In doing so, it does not limit itself to the Province of Carniola, but discusses it in relation to other Habsburg provinces. This is the first complex presentation of the problem, based on a wide array of sources and comparisons with the development in the neighbouring countries. The work represents a research into an important question concerning the Carniolan as well as broader Slovenian history at the turn of the Middle Ages and Modern Period. It is a broadly based study and the first of its kind in Slovenian historiography to address the selected theme. Moreover, the monograph also bears importance for the broader, especially Austrian-German area.The book is divided into eleven chapters. It also contains an extensive summary in German, as well as an index of names and a subject index. The text is accompanied by three maps and thirty-four illustrations.
The work is a critical edition of the notary codex from Piran (1298–1317). Notaries entered into notary codices the essential features of business transactions in stenographic form, specific writing ...and simple Latin. This is a valuable type of sources for the study of medieval and later history. The entries portray the economic and social life of cities and their surroundings, their administration, judicial system, everyday life, population development, urban image, as well as culture and arts, all of which serve the purposes of research conducted by experts in various fields. The edition is equipped with a standard critical apparatus and an accompanying study which is also translated into English. The main part of the text encompasses the transliteration of the manuscript comprising 420 agreements with different contents. Each is marked with a successive number, defined with regard to its content and dated. The specific features of the original and inconsistencies in writing are described in notes. The work comes with an index of names, a subject index and a list of entries in which each entry is marked with the original annotation of the page in the original, date, type of contents, short summary of the contents and the page in the publication.
The book is a text-critical edition of Brixen urbaria for the diocesan estates in Upper Carniola (Bled seigniory) with a comprehensive scholarly commentary and concise presentation of the historical ...development of the Bled seigniory throughout the Middle Ages. The published sources, offering a rich insight into the property, economic and social conditions of the Middle Ages, belong to the earliest accounts relating to agrarian economy and land property in the Slovenian territory and have, as such, long attracted the interest of the historian profession. This publication, having already been planned decades ago by renown Slovenian historians such as Milko Kos and Pavle Blaznik, naturally completes a series of publications of urbaria for the complexes of ecclesiastical (diocesan) land estates in the territory of Slovenia.
The third volume of The Notary Book from Piran is a scientific issue of the source – the book of the notary Sclavion with imbreviations of 589 documents of various contents, which is kept at the ...Piran Archives. It contains the transcription of the original Latin text, notes, an index of personal and place names, a factual register, and a list of summaries of entries.