The paper discusses hand-written notes in calendars and manorial minutes of Bishop of Ljubljana Tomaž Hren (1597–1630). The analysis of temperature and precipitation conditions is based on their conversion into symbols. Along with the data on day-to-day levels, numerous pieces of information are preserved on weather for longer periods of time, in particular, from the second and third decade of the 17th century. Anomalies match with Central European ones to a great extent, yet not completely. Hren’s data on weather allowed us to make out some climatic characteristics of parts of Slovene territory in the early 17th century.
COBISS.SI-ID: 53218146
Dendrochronological dating has proven that both the putative Romanesque part and the Renaissance part of Pišece castle are not as old as anticipated, however, samples from the putative baroque part of the castle are older than expected. We have proven that in different periods different types of wood for construction were used—oak, fir, chestnut, and beech—and that it was of local or at least of regional origin. At the same time, the study has pointed out that dendroprovenancing can be used in the territory southeast of the Alps, where we are dealing with a pioneer research. Both archival sources and analyses of wood prove that in certain periods the castle was being improved every few decades. Years of repairs that are attested by the analysis of wood can in some instances be associated with earthquakes, revolts and inscribed years.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2297481
The paper deals with some aspects of man’s encounters with forests in the eastern Alps in Early Middle Ages. Three forms of forest are brought forward that are denoted by the terms nemus, saltus, eremus, silva and forestis. While the first three terms stood for primeval forest or wilderness unsuitable for man’s living, silva represented that forest from which man supplied himself with resources for survival. Forestis, which denoted legally specific forest, bore special meaning.
COBISS.SI-ID: 56963426
The paper discusses the question how and to what extent natural factors expedited or delayed the development of towns and market towns in the central Slovene province Carniola in premodern times. Due to mineral resources a town and a market town came into existence, due to use of water two settlements were granted the title of market town, the economic profile of a medieval market town underwent a thorough modification due to the rise of riverine navigation. Fires represented a much stronger destructive factor than floods. Their impact on the spatial and social image of towns and market towns was greater in cases of economically and structurally less stable microenvironments. At least one medieval market town disappeared for good following a destructive fire.
COBISS.SI-ID: 56969314
A step forward in the research of seigneuries was made possible by means of sources from everyday transactions, balance sheets and account books. Although it was not completely ignored in classical agrarian history, such documentation was only used sporadically. Only with the use of an integral, systematic approach it is possible to extract the full potential of these materials, which rests on the statistically accurate descriptions of transactions made by institutions as well as in the practical nature of these transactions.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36815405