Kmečki upori, vzroki in posledice Tolminskega punta leta 1713 ter njihov vpliv naliterarno ustvarjanje

Abstract: Starting from the Fifteenth Century, the Austrian Empire was crossed by a rampant discontent among the peasants, crushed mainly by the growing tax burden: in 1478 there was a revolt in Carinthia and Styria, in 1515 in Carniola, in 1573 in Slovenia and Croatia. On 17 March 1713, after the arrest of some protesters in Tolmin, a crowd from the Isonzo and Vipava valleys stormed Gorizia under the leadership of Ivan Gradnik, Andrej Laharnar e Gregor Kobal, being routed by the imperial troops. The failed enterprise, as well as the subsequent bloody hanging of the insurgent leaders in Travnik Square in 1714, had great echo in the later Slovenian narrative. This essay reconstructs their influence by focusing on the literary production of Ivan Pregelj (1883-1960) and in particular on the novel Tolminci and the tale Matkova Tina.