The Visoko Chronicle, or the "swan song" of the classic of Slovenian literature by Ivan Tavčar, by its material and central thematic sources, belongs to a type of historical novel that can be approached interdisciplinarily - from the point of view of both literary and historical studies - and in this way, different perspectives on it can be presented or confronted and brought together. In this thesis, on the one hand, we critically and clearly present the various and, in my opinion, the most original and interesting interpretations of this essential text for Tavčar, as they emerged in the various periods of research into his narrative oeuvre, while, on the other hand, we are primarily interested in the novel with regard to the literary transformation of historical material, or the historicized reality of the 17th century, in which Tavčar situates the action of his narrative. Here we focus on the Loška manor, an entity that encompassed and influenced the development of the Poljanska valley and the wider Škofjeloško area, including Visoko, and on the three historical themes of the novel: the Thirty Years' War, the persecution of witches and the persecution of Protestants.
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