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Abstract: The paper examines attitudes toward ageing and the elderly in Istria and Trieste in the second half of the nineteenth century. It takes as its starting point the perceptions associated with old age, which in the nineteenth century inevitably included, on the one hand, the inability to work—often leading to the economic dependence of the elderly and to their being regarded as a burden on the family or the state—and, on the other hand, their physical frailty, whether biologically or socially conditioned, which could to some extent be both a cause and a symptom of their social deprivation. Elderly people can be traced among the residents of almshouses and recipients of poor relief, among patients in hospitals for infectious diseases, and among those who died of age related wasting. Medical imperatives directed at the elderly were tailored primarily to the bourgeoisie and stood in stark contrast to the actual experience of ageing among the lower classes, which could not be associated with rest and self care but rather with prolonged physical labour, bodily pain, and economic insecurity.
Keywords: diseases, old age, mortality, poverty, social measures, Trieste, Istria, 19th century
Published in DiRROS: 31.03.2026; Views: 312; Downloads: 234
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Published in DiRROS: 31.03.2026; Views: 300; Downloads: 323
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Abstract: Publikacija predstavlja historične in umetnostnozgodovinske poudarke izbranih dvorcev in vil v zahodni Sloveniji, pri čemer se ne posveča zgolj najpomembnejšim arhitekturnim poudarkom, ampak poskuša zgodovino stavb in njihovih posameznikov razložiti v zgodovinskem kontekstu, v katerem so živeli. Izpostavlja posameznike, ki so s svojimi življenjskimi zgodbami in karierami pustili poseben pečat v svojem času, ustvarili zavidljive knjižne in umetniške zbirke in na svojih dvorcih gostili pomembne osebnosti. Gre namreč za okolje, ki je zaradi političnih sprememb na začetku 16. stoletja omogočilo predstavnikom številnih plemiških rodbin (Cobenzl, Lanthieri, Hofer, Rabatta, Thurn, Thurn-Valsassina, Herberstein, Edling, Dornberk, Coronini) hiter vzpon znotraj plemiške hierarhije zaradi diplomatskih in dvornih služb, od uspešnih diplomatov na cesarskem dvoru do spretnih rodbinskih in kariernih povezav, mnogi pa so svoj prestiž in ugled izkazovali tudi skozi podobe dvorcev, ki so predstavljeni v publikaciji. Ob izumrtju nekaj najpomembnejših novoveških rodbin so lastniki nekaterih dvorcev postali meščani in prav ti so spisali prav neverjetne znanstvene in karitativne zgodbe. Publikacija pomeni pregled obsežne obstoječe literature, pri določenih lokacijah (Žablje, Kozlov rob, Coronini, Lože, Rihemberk, dvorec Ravne pri Pivki, Šilentabor) pa so bile opravljene tudi nove raziskave.
Keywords: umetnostna zgodovina, plemiške rodbine
Published in DiRROS: 24.10.2025; Views: 603; Downloads: 567
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Keywords: religious transformation, atheization, secularization, freedom of religion
Published in DiRROS: 05.08.2025; Views: 615; Downloads: 366
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Abstract: The paper seeks to examine the social image of suicide at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, focusing on the case of Trieste as a major Austrian urban centre, where the suicide rates were visibly increasing from at least the 1870s onwards. The perception of the growing presence of suicide in society made it possible to observe the reflec-tions on suicide from the last quarter of the 19th century, originating from different parts of Europe (Morselli, Masaryk, Durkheim), and at the same time how the discourses around suicide shed light on a somewhat broader picture of society, including its fears (of social problems and change, not least the potential threat of the imitative effect that the daily press was believed to create by reporting on suicides).The newspaper discourse usually followed the scientific publications of the time, and the contemporaneous observations on the mass of suicides were confirmed through statistical analyses and medical, sociological, philosophical, and other debates, while raising many other social issues with which suicide in urban areas could be linked (alcoholism, the growth of the proletariat, poverty, changing values, etc.). All these factors shaped the public debate on suicide as a problem of modern society, with an emphasis on (big) cities, where the prob-lem of suicide was much more pronounced than in smaller, non-industrial towns, or in the countryside of the Austrian Littoral.
Keywords: suicide, cities, modernisation, 1870-1910, Trieste, Koper, Austria-Hungary
Published in DiRROS: 15.10.2024; Views: 1034; Downloads: 570
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