• Publisher: Slovenska matica
• 172 pages
• Author: Sašo Jerše
• Original title: Sociodiceja predmoderne: ustvarjanje družbenega smisla v poznem srednjem in zgodnjem novem veku

The new book by the historian Sašo Jerše – a professor of Slovenian early Modern Age and cultural history at the University of Ljubljana’s Faculty of Arts –, titled Sociodicy of the Pre-Modern Time: Generation of Social Meaning in the late Middle and early Modern Ages, brings discussions of five brilliant works of art; of the historical contexts in which they emerged; and of the parallels among them that can be discerned. Parallels between

 Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s frescoes of the Sienna Governor’s Palace – Allegory of Good Governance and Allegory of Bad Governance (1337–1340) –; the Graz fresco Picture of Divine Punishments and Divine Graces (1482) and the Ptuj Picture of the Three Classes of the World (1478), both by Thomas von Villach (Tomaž Beljaški); and, finally, the Large Triumphal Carriage (1518), a watercoloured drawing by Albrecht Dürer, rise of their own, and are obvious and close and inevitable. If we first judge these works in terms of style, it must be emphasised that they are works of art and thus not without a creative relaxedness and therewith an

About the author

Sašo Jerše

Dr. Sašo Jerše (b. 1974), an associate professor, is a noted Slovenian historian of the middle generation, teaching Slovenian history of the early Modern Age at the University of Ljubljana’s Faculty of Arts. He is the author of numerous research papers on pre-modern political history and on the history of pre-modern Church and mentalities.