Produkcia univerzitnej tlačiarne Trnavskej univerzity (1635-1777) vo vidieckom farskom prostredí
The Output of the Printing House of Trnava University (1635-1777) in a Rural Parish Context

Summary/Abstract: While the academic literature is consistent with what a really important influence the existence of Trnava University (1635-1777), as one of two university-type educational institutions (along with the University of Košice), had in the territory of today´s Slovakia on the development of science, education, culture and literature, its literary production is still not sufficiently researched or analyzed in detail either as a whole or as individual types of published genres. Also, the reception of this production in a rural, urban or church context has not yet been the subject of a deeper analysis. For this reason we chose the analysis of a production of Trnava University in a rural parish context in southwestern Slovakia as the aim of this study, based on an analysis of parish libraries, which are in themselves a historical phenomenon. Within the territory of southwestern Slovakia we selected several parishes in the Little Carpathians region (Dolné Dubové, Smolenice, Trstín, Dolná Krupá), in the region Záhorie (Borský Mikuláš, Petrova Ves) and in the region Žitný ostrov (Trhová Hradská, Kostolné Kračany). During this period this area was a part of - Bratislava county, but ecclesiastically belonged to the Esztergom archbishopric and the Trnava vicariate. Due to the growing source base from the institutionalized environment of the Roman Catholic Church, especially the canonical visitations of the parishes and summary catalogues in the individual parish offices, we can in this study analyze and reconstruct the relatively accurate state of the book and periodical production of Trnava University in parishes, along with clerical or secular themes including created lists and catalogues.

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