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rights of Protestants and as a convinced Catholic had no inten-
tion of giving such official legal concessions,
2) the provincial nobility, who in their endeavours to increase their
political power against the provincial prince did not dare/wish to
adopt such a decisive stance as had their aristocratic counterparts
in the Reich in paving the way for provincial Reformed churches,
and
3) the “time trap”, when with regard to confirming the old and
granting the new provincial privileges, the most favourable op-
portunity was missed – the homage to the provincial prince – in
April 1564 (the Cerkovna ordninga was completed at the end of
summer that year).
The Cerkovna ordninga was thus banned, and its author exiled to
Germany, to what Trubar called his nigdirdom. So his short career in the
position of superintendent, the first provincial preacher, came to an end.
Yet the Cerkovna ordninga after this inauspicious initial setback later had a
positive reception, since all the copies of this work were not destroyed (the
two known copies today testify to this – the Vatican copy, which belonged
to Trubar’s successor in the position of superintendent of “the church of the
Slovene language”, the German M. Kristof Spindler, and the Memmingen
copy, which belonged to Bernard Steiner), and in addition, part of Trubar’s
text from the Ordninga apparently passed in the mid 1580s into Dalmatin’s
Agenda (1585), against which the provincial prince Charles took no steps.
For this latter work, due to its exclusively ceremonial religious content
did not encroach on his regalia, which within the articles of the Peace of
Augsburg the Cerkovna ordninga most certainly did, with its admitted-
ly unidentified publisher (none of the extant copies of the Cerkovna ord-
ninga has a title page or prefaces, from which the publisher’s “adherence”
and consequent responsibility could be established), but as it seems from
Trubar’s letter to the provincial administrator and Carniolan Committee
members (Ljubljana, 29 October 1564) with the Provincial Estates behind
him, and thus with the political commitment of the provincial nobility, not
of the prince. Thus with the reception and operation of the Cerkovna ord-
ninga, it seems that Trubar succeeded in organizing a de facto function-
ing provincial church. But because of the political referential framework
of the Peace of Augsburg, this remaincd from then on unacknowledged de
iure and thus was also legally beyond the law – relying, in addition to God’s
help, primarily on the still fortunate political relation of forces between the
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rights of Protestants and as a convinced Catholic had no inten-
tion of giving such official legal concessions,
2) the provincial nobility, who in their endeavours to increase their
political power against the provincial prince did not dare/wish to
adopt such a decisive stance as had their aristocratic counterparts
in the Reich in paving the way for provincial Reformed churches,
and
3) the “time trap”, when with regard to confirming the old and
granting the new provincial privileges, the most favourable op-
portunity was missed – the homage to the provincial prince – in
April 1564 (the Cerkovna ordninga was completed at the end of
summer that year).
The Cerkovna ordninga was thus banned, and its author exiled to
Germany, to what Trubar called his nigdirdom. So his short career in the
position of superintendent, the first provincial preacher, came to an end.
Yet the Cerkovna ordninga after this inauspicious initial setback later had a
positive reception, since all the copies of this work were not destroyed (the
two known copies today testify to this – the Vatican copy, which belonged
to Trubar’s successor in the position of superintendent of “the church of the
Slovene language”, the German M. Kristof Spindler, and the Memmingen
copy, which belonged to Bernard Steiner), and in addition, part of Trubar’s
text from the Ordninga apparently passed in the mid 1580s into Dalmatin’s
Agenda (1585), against which the provincial prince Charles took no steps.
For this latter work, due to its exclusively ceremonial religious content
did not encroach on his regalia, which within the articles of the Peace of
Augsburg the Cerkovna ordninga most certainly did, with its admitted-
ly unidentified publisher (none of the extant copies of the Cerkovna ord-
ninga has a title page or prefaces, from which the publisher’s “adherence”
and consequent responsibility could be established), but as it seems from
Trubar’s letter to the provincial administrator and Carniolan Committee
members (Ljubljana, 29 October 1564) with the Provincial Estates behind
him, and thus with the political commitment of the provincial nobility, not
of the prince. Thus with the reception and operation of the Cerkovna ord-
ninga, it seems that Trubar succeeded in organizing a de facto function-
ing provincial church. But because of the political referential framework
of the Peace of Augsburg, this remaincd from then on unacknowledged de
iure and thus was also legally beyond the law – relying, in addition to God’s
help, primarily on the still fortunate political relation of forces between the
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