A Song about the Horrible Ptuj Plague or How the Slovenian Electronic Archives Contributes to Historical Research
Branka Molnar · Moderna arhivistika · 2022
On the example of the Virtual Archival Reading room and free access to digitized manuscripts from the Historical Archives in Ptuj, which are located in the Slovenian Electronic Archive (e-ARH.si), the experience of the historian (PhD student) is presented when determining the authenticity and credibility of archival sources whose content influenced the setting of the hypothesis in the article about the plague epidemic in the Zagreb area in 1682-1682. The aforementioned digitized material is compared with relevant sources in the Digital Library of Slovenia, an egdotic analysis is carried out and the importance of a free and holistic approach to digitized material in discovering the historical context and building a complete historical story is presented.