Scraps of Thought: Margin Notes in Old Romanian Books

Mariana Borcoman

ISBN 10: 3631660464 / ISBN 13: 9783631660461

Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Feb 2015, 2015

Beschreibung

Neuware -Scraps of thought analyses notes in medieval books from the archive of the First Romanian School from ¿cheii Bräovului, the Romanian settlement outside Bräov city walls. Merchants, craftsmen and wealthy people financially supported St. Nicholas Church and the school on its premises. Families of scholars, formed in the school of ¿cheii, preserved the light of books and Romanian Orthodoxism in the region. The notes in the books reveal an educated society, passing on fragments of their way of thinking. We learn about unusual weather conditions, covenants for preserving the moral norms, information regarding the meeting of the priests in the area and especially the curses that were meant to protect the books. The study shows the medieval book as a written medium which included glimpses of life, fragments of human emotions and events. 120 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783631660461

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Scraps of Thought: Margin Notes in Old Romanian Books
• Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Feb 2015
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3631660464
• ISBN-13: 9783631660461
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 210B x 148 H x 7 T Millimeter Breite: 210 mm, Höhe: 148 mm, Tiefe: 7 mm
• Gewicht: 167 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

Scraps of thought analyses notes in medieval books from the archive of the First Romanian School from ? cheii Bra ? ovului, the Romanian settlement outside Bra ? ov city walls. Merchants, craftsmen and wealthy people financially supported St. Nicholas Church and the school on its premises. Families of scholars, formed in the school of ? cheii, preserved the light of books and Romanian Orthodoxism in the region. The notes in the books reveal an educated society, passing on fragments of their way of thinking. We learn about unusual weather conditions, covenants for preserving the moral norms, information regarding the meeting of the priests in the area and especially the curses that were meant to protect the books. The study shows the medieval book as a written medium which included glimpses of life, fragments of human emotions and events.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mariana Borcoman is a lecturer at the Social Sciences and Communication Department at Transylvania University in Brașov (Romania). She also conducts historical research at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Tübingen (both Germany) as well as the University of Vienna and the European Institute of Budapest.