The paper presents the problem of manuscripts of Slovenian literature from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that remained unknown until recently. Many of them were written by Slovenian peasant writers, or at least intended for peasant readers. These peasant manuscripts represent a current of traditional folk culture that was abolished or even suppressed by the Austrian authorities under Joseph II. In this context, manuscript culture served as a medium in which Slovenian vernacular literacy could exist and survive against the rationalistic and modern dominant literacy.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 38213421The paper proposes a revision of the current notion of the "Franciscan sermon" in Slovenian literary studies. Up to the present day, the real Franciscan sermon has been practically ignored and the term "Franciscan sermon" has been incorrectly used to designate the sermon of the Capuchins. Recently, Franciscan manuscripts with numerous sermons have been discovered, which prove that in the Baroque period, also Slovenian Franciscans had some excellent writers of rhetorical prose. They have written an extensive corpus of sermons in Slovenian language, but, unfortunately, no part thereof has been published either in Baroque time or later and has thus remained unknown. The paper gives a basic overview of the preserved material that is rather extensive though it can be inferred that the bulk of Slovenian Franciscan sermons in manuscript have not survived. We attempt to start a record of preserved manuscripts, their possible authors, the date and place of the delivery of the sermons and the genres thereof. We also briefly present the sermons of the outstanding late Baroque writer Fr. Konrad Branka OFM (about 1737–1789).
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