Dr Ziga Oman
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Experienced Researcher
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Profile
Biography
Žiga Oman is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Experienced Researcher, working on the project SOCRESTA: Social Relations And The State: Feud And Law In Sixteenth-Century Germany.
Žiga is a historian of early modern Central Europe, investigating the uses of violence and the law in disputes among (largely) non-nobles as well as the language and emotions of dispute settlement. Until the start of SOCRESTA, which addresses these issues in the Prince-bishopric of Wurzburg, his research focused on the Habsburg polity of Inner Austria.
Environment (Slovenia) and Assistant Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Maribor (Slovenia).
Career
MA, MPhil, PhD (Maribor)
Research
Overview
Žiga’s research focuses on how early modern Central Europeans, particularly plebeians, conducted, settled and experienced their disputes and how this was mediated by gender. After having investigated Inner Austria, with SOCRESTA he has now turned his attention to the Prince-bishopric of Wurzburg to explore how peasants, burghers and lesser nobles used violence and the law to resolve their disputes following the ban on feud in the Holy Roman Empire. Concurrently, he is investigating how effective were princely states in mediating enmities and controlling violence in a period marked by the social upheaval of the Peasants’ War, religious discord of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, and aristocratic conflict.
Žiga’s publications include “Law and Emotion: The Lexicon of ‘Enmity’ in Early Modern Inner Austria,” Austrian History Yearbook 56 (2025), 32–51 and “Will auß der Vnordnung nit Schreitten: A case of Fehde from 17th-century Styria,” Acta Histriae 24, no. 1 (2016), 63–100, as well as a book on feuding and peacemaking in the early modern Slovenian historical lands (published in Slovenian in 2021).
Projects
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action, funded by the European Union in 2025-27, for the project SOCRESTA: Social Relations And The State: Feud And Law In Sixteenth-Century Germany. Supervisor: Prof Stuart Carroll.
Grants
Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS) in 2021-23, for the post-doctoral research project Z6-3223 Plebeian Dispute Settlement in Baroque Inner Austria: Between Feud and Criminal Law.
External activities
Editorial duties
Since 2022, Žiga has been an editor of the scientific journals Acta Histriae and Annales, Series Historia et Sociologia.
