ACTA HISTRIAE

Zajc, Marko, Smiljanić, Ivan & Meta Remec

2025-12-29T19:21:10+01:00

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Saint George, the Dragon Slayer

2025-12-29T17:10:45+01:00

This article examines the transformation of the legend of Saint George from an early Christian martyr into a militant dragon slayer and divine agent of order. It argues that this shift reflects broader cultural and theological changes in medieval Europe, where narratives increasingly framed conflict resolution through sacralized violence rather than symbolic mediation. By analyzing the legend as a structure of meaning, the study shows how Saint George came to embody a model of holy intervention that legitimizes the elimination of enemies as a form of cosmic purification. The dragon, as a symbolic adversary, externalizes chaos, heresy, and disorder, while the saint’s action restores divine order. At the same time, the legend enacts an allegorical union of sacred and secular power, staging a mythic foundation for religiously sanctioned authority. The legend thus operates not as a literal prescription, but as a powerful narrative that mirrors and shapes collective imaginaries of legitimacy, sovereignty, and spiritual warfare.

Criminal Offences Against Life, Limb, and Property in Kotor (Fifteenth to Seventeenth Century)

2025-12-29T17:28:05+01:00

This paper explores the history of criminal law of the Venetian-ruled city of Kotor from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. The paper is primarily interested in the norms, punishments, and the application of the Venetian, municipal, and customary criminal law, with a specific focus on criminal offenses against life and limb and property. Drawing on the largely unexplored wealth of archival material preserved in the Historical Archives of Kotor, the paper foregrounds the history of public law in Kotor where the existing scholarship has tended mostly to study private law. By reconstructing from the hitherto unused archival sources the norms, the application, and the institutions of criminal law of the late medieval and early modern Kotor, the paper calls for a renewed, interdisciplinary approach to the study of the city’s legal, political, and institutional history. The research specifically aimed to uncover original archival material related to criminal offenses against life and limb, as well as property offenses, punishment and its practical application. The findings reveal highly valuable and significant archival records, which have not been the subject of legal scientific research until now.

State-Making in the Ottoman Periphery

2025-12-29T17:45:00+01:00

The Ottoman centralization process, which began in the early nineteenth century, attempted to homogenize various administrative, judicial, and societal aspects of thestate and life. In the Empire’s eastern peripheral regions, the system of indirect rule, governed by local hereditary dynasties, prevailed but gradually came to an end. The shift towards an imperial-national direct state sphere necessitated the implementation of new regulations and institutions in these outlying regions. This paper explores the application of centralization reforms in the hereditary sanjak of Bayezid, located on the Ottoman eastern frontier adjacent to the Iranian and Russian Empires during the mid-nineteenth century. The state-making efforts did not merely involve the removal of local dynasties; it also entailed the multifaceted imposition of state rules and structures, establishing direct governance across various domains. This study examines how these new regulations were implemented, both successfully and to a limited extent, in Bayezid during the 1850s and 1860s, the initial decades of the reform period in the region. Additionally, the paper challenges the prevailing literature by arguing that not all hereditary dynasties resisted the reforms aimed at establishing a direct state sphere.

Jan Šedivý kot posrednik med slovensko in belorusko ter ukrajinsko kulturo

2025-12-29T18:25:47+01:00

Jan Šedivý ob koncu dvajsetih let 20. stoletja ni samo oral ledine s svojimi poglobljenimi predstavitvami beloruske in ukrajinske kulture, marveč se tudi njegov pristop razlikuje od tistega, ki je zlasti po drugi svetovni vojni v slovenskem prostoru prevladoval. To je bilo povezano z zgodovinskim trenutkom, v katerem so se Belorusi in Ukrajinci znašli v času zgodovinarjevega študija v Pragi. Poznejši razvoj je precej osramotil Šedivýjev optimizem s konca dvajsetih let. Skoraj popolno uničenje komaj oblikovane ukrajinske in beloruske kulturne elite v tridesetih letih 20. stoletja in druga svetovna vojna, ki je med drugim ustvarila novo politično mitologijo, sta skupaj s precej dvoumno združitvijo velike večine Ukrajincev in Belorusov pod sovjetsko egido na novo narisali kulturni zemljevid Vzhodne Evrope tudi za Slovence.

Sodne obravnave mladoletnic, žrtev spolnih zlorab, pred okrožnimi sodišči Maribor, Murska Sobota in Celje v obdobju med letoma 1930 in 1941

2025-12-29T18:38:25+01:00

Članek tematizira sodno obravnavo mladoletnic (deklet do 14. leta oz. tudi starejših do 18 let, če še niso imele spolnega odnosa), žrtev spolnih zlorab, pred Okrožnimi sodišči Maribor, Murska Sobota in Celje med letoma 1930 in 1941. Posebej se delo osredinja na sodne obravnave mladoletnih žrtev, na izpovedi žrtev in odločitve sodišč pri izrekanju sodbe obdolžencem. Analiza sodnih spisov, nanašajočih se na spolne zlorabe mladoletnic, ohranjenih v Pokrajinskem arhivu Maribor in Zgodovinskem arhivu Celje, je pokazala, da je bila sodna praksa med sodišči neenotna s kazenskimi pravili, kot jih je določal tedanji Kazenski zakonik Kraljevine Jugoslavije, kar je razvidno predvsem v odmerjanju nižjih in milejših kazni obdolžencem.

Le printemps slovène – vent de liberté sur la Slovénie

2025-12-29T18:46:39+01:00

Prispevek na podlagi analize gradiva francoskega Ministrstva za Evropo in zunanje zadeve v Nantesu in La Courneuvu, poročanja časnika Le Monde ter najbolj relevantne znanstvene literature obravnava francoski pogled na začetno fazo slovenske pomladi (1987 1988). Poseben poudarek namenja t. i. plakatni aferi, objavi Prispevkov za slovenski nacionalni program v 57. številki Nove revije, kritičnim zapisom v Mladini ter aferi JBTZ (Janez Janša, Ivan Borštner, David Tasić in Franci Zavrl). V ta namen avtorica kritično osvetli, kako so bile takratne civilno-družbene pobude v Socialistični republiki Sloveniji spremljane in dojete v Franciji – zlasti kot izraz teženj po demokratizaciji in prizadevanj za večjo slovensko avtonomijo.

Conference Report on International Symposium

2025-12-29T19:04:41+01:00

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Conference Report on 12th Istrian History Biennale: International Scientific Conference

2025-12-29T19:08:29+01:00

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Conference Report on the 23rd International Oral History Association Conference Re-Thinking Oral History, 16–19 September 2025, Krakow

2025-12-29T19:10:32+01:00

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