The article introduces the key linguistic works which dealt with the characteristics of the Dolenjska and East-Dolenjska sub-dialects. The linguistic works written from the 16th century until the 1930s (e.g. P. Trubar, H. Megiser, J. Kopitar, F. Metelko, F. Miklošič) include the Dolenjska sub-dialects in wider classifications of Slovenian dialects. Beside the Slovenian linguists some Slavists of European significance (e.g. P. J. Šafárik, I. Sreznjevski, J. Baudouin de Courtenay, L. Tesnière) dealt with these dialects, too. Slovenian dialectologist Fran Ramovš was the first to identify and characterize the Dolenjska subdialects in detail (1933, 1935). Tine Logar introduced the samples of phonetically transcribed texts of the individual Dolenjska and East-Dolenjska sub-dialects including a short easy-to-follow commentary on the spelling (1975) and Jakob Rigler did the analysis of the development in the Dolenjska vocalism, the characteristics of individual sub-dialects and encyclopaedic description of the spelling in all the dialects (1963, 1980, 1986, 1988). The least researched sub-dialect was that of the East-Dolenjska area. Until the 1990s, when Vera Smole began to study its spelling, morphology and lexis, and beside the identification and characteristics done by Ramovš, only the phonological description of the village Bučka was carried out (F. Novak, 1981).
Franc Grivec (1878 – 1963), a pioneer in systematic research of Eastern Christianity in Slovenian higher education, was not a political thinker but a theologian and historian. However, some ecclesiological and historical themes he studied answered the pressing social questions of his time. In Grivec’s works, it is possible to identify a certain Christian social vision that opposes both socialism and liberal capitalism. The first core of Grivec’s social vision is unity among Christians under the auspices of the Catholic Church, where the thought of the Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov (1853 – 1900) is highlighted. The second core is the national consciousness among Slovenians and other Slavs, which acts as a defense mechanism against the socialist revolution. In Grivec’s social vision, Russia occupies a negative and at the same time positive starting point for reflection – based on the revolution carried out and at the same time experiences in preventing its spread and a preserved sense of the search for truth. The Slovenian author places the two conceptual cores (Christian unity and national consciousness) within the example of the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius. In this way, he establishes a mythical idea of the medieval period, thus approaching the theory of the “New Middle Ages” of the Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev (1874 – 1948).
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