From the mid-seventeenth-century onwards, members of the nobility, including the London Royal Society fellow Johann Weikhard von
Valvasor, became increasingly interested in science outside theology.
In her collections, Koman treated texts well known in Slovenian culture in a fairy tale manner and she discussed the motif of a water sprite that had already been dealt with by Janez Vajkard
Valvasor, Mirko Rupel, Bogomil Gerlanc, and Elko Justin in their 1978 Slava vojvodine Kranjske (The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola).
de Grenaille: image(s) de l'auteur?"; Charlotte Simonin, "Les portraits de femmes auteurs ou l'impossible representation"; Christian Bouzy, "Emblemes et Entree: Jean-Jacques Boissard ou l'image emblematique entre tradition et historiographie"; Martin Germ, "Theatrum morris humanae tripartitum: Iconographie de la Mort dans le livre de Janez Vajkard
Valvasor"; Angelo Colombo, "Sur le traces d'un langage europeen: l'Iconologie de C.
Valvasor, Slava vojvadinc kranjske (The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola) (Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 1984 [1689]).
See also the advice to a groom on his wedding night in
Valvasor. The author encourages the groom to please his bride, because the following day all the matrons of the city will see what kind of a man he is from his and his bride's faces.