Objectives and competences
Student is able to analyze important occurences, appearances and processes in the Early Modern Slovene history and the history of
countries, in which they lived, in the political as well as in the cultural, economic and other fields. He develops the ability to recognize and understand influences of European and world's occurences on Slovene history.
Content (Syllabus outline)
Subject is divided into three parts:
I. The overview of events
Eastern Alpine and littoral region and the region of Prekmurje after the partition of the legacy of the Counts of Cilli: state authoritative and property situation, internal and external threats – wars between Hungary and the Hapsburgs, Ottoman incursions, noble revolts, peasant rising in 1478.
The accession of Maximilian. Turbulent decades in the first part of the 16th century: occupation of the county of Gorizia and the first Hapsburg-Venetian war, continuation of Ottoman incursions, peasant rising in 1515, Innsbruck 1518, the death of Maximilian I. and the new land prince. Mohacs 1526 – changes and the beginning of the Ottoman threat in the northeast. Ferdinand's tax measures, militarization of society and the formation of the defence organization, the death of Ferdinand and the division of the hereditary lands. The growth and the peak of Lutheranism – Graz 1572 and Bruck an der Mur 1578, the first steps of Counter-Reformation, differences between the States and the emperor, the death of Charles II., the start of the Long War and the accession of Ferdinand II. Realization of Counter-Reformation and the start of recatholization, the militant emperor and the second Hapsburg-Venetian war, universal worsening of the living conditions of the lower stratum of society, peasant rising in 1635. The consequences of the last phase and the end of the Thirty Years' War in the Slovene territory, Ottoman tyranny in Prekmurje and Porabje, the accession of Leopold I. and the new role of the Hapsburgs in the Slovene neighbourhood, Rakoczy rebellion. Peaceful 18th century at home and the wars in neighbourhood. Land princes to Maria Theresa, mercantilism, the reform period.
II. Outline of the formation of administrative, authoritative and judicial institutions and of economy and ethnic changes in the region. The legal aspects of life; private property as an existential and fiscal notion; bureaucracy as a new way to make money. From the noble as a landowner to the noble as a entrepreneur. Regional peculiarities and differences.
III. The appearances of ideal and religious movements and the deflections from humanism until the age of enlightenment and until the Edict of Tolerance, Roman Catholic church and Evangelicanism, monasticism, education, culture and art from the ending of the Late Gothic period until the Rococo. Leading noble and patricial families, church leaders and development of town settlements in Slovenian lands during the Early modern period are particularly stressed.
Learning and teaching methods
Explanation, work with sources, seminar, individual study, seminar assignment, presentation of seminar assignment, discussion. The information and communications technology is used for educational purposes in the teaching and learning process.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Student is able to evaluate the most important complexes of the Slovenian history in the Early Modern Period.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Student acquires the capabilities of comparative treatment of individual ethnical elements and countries or historical processes at all.
He gains the ability to critically assess all forms of messages that have the value of historical sources, and to distinguish between inducements, motives and consequences, considering the interdependence of different occurences, continuity and discrepancies in the historical development.
Readings
1. Priročniki in karte o organizacijski strukturi do 1918, Ljubljana 1988.
2. Zgodovina Slovencev, Cankarjeva založba, Ljubljana 1979.
3. V. Simoniti,Turki so v deželi že, Celje 1990.
4. Zgodovina Cerkve na Slovenskem, Celje 1991.
5. Katholische Reformation und Gegenreformation in Innerösterreich 1564-1628/Katoliška prenova in protireformacija v notranjeavstrijskih deželah 1564-1628, Klagenfurt-Ljubljana- Wien 1994.
6. Reformacija na Slovenskem, Ljubljana 2010.
Dodatna literatura:
7. P. Štih, V. Simoniti, Na stičišču svetov, Ljubljana 2010.
8. V. Simoniti, Fanfare nasilja, Ljubljana 2003.
9. M. Štuhec, Besede, ravnanja in stvari: Plemstvo na Kranjskem v prvi polovici 18. stoletja, Ljubljana 2009.
Prerequisits
Preknowledge from subject History of the Slovene Territory in the Middle Agesž
Conditions for prerequisits:
Completed seminar assignment is a prerequisit for
accession to the written examination.
