Zgodovinopisje (Slovene)

The research programme is directed towards studying of Slovene and general history in all historical periods. Its attention is focused on the research of issues insufficiently dealt with in Slovene and general political, social, economic and cultural history. The research will comprise the entire Slovene settlement area as well as the neighbouring countries irrespective of the state frames, within which Slovenes have lived. By using the method(s) of critical analysis of historical sources and analysis of historical events this research programme aims at reaching a synthesis of Slovene history from the antiquity to the present day. Within this frame, special attention will be paid to administrative and state structures on Slovene territory, to questions of different identities that Slovene region assumed through history (tribal identities of the antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, regional identities, ethnical and national identities, the ethnogenesis of Slovenes), to less handled problems from the political history (such as the phenomenon of state and nationhood, interpretation of political developments in different periods), to individual questions from social history (study of élites, nobility, bourgeoisie), questions of economic foundations for the historical development of Slovene region, national questions, cultural history. The study of general history will be directed primarily to those questions that place the historical development of Slovenia within wider European and global frames and are relevant for understanding of this development. The target areas in this research will be primarily the Middle and South-Eastern Europe and their neigbouring states. The remaining parts of the world will be included in the research only to the extent in which they are relevant for understanding of historical processes on Slovene territory.