Scraps of Thought: Margin Notes in Old Romanian Books (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783631660461)

Vendor: Mariana Borcoman
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$45.20
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Scraps of Thought: Margin Notes in Old Romanian Books

$45.20

Scraps of Thought: Margin Notes in Old Romanian Books

$45.20
Format: Paperback
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Scraps of thought analyses notes in medieval books from the archive of the First Romanian School from Şcheii Brașovului, the Romanian settlement outside Brașov 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 Şcheii, 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.

Author: Mariana Borcoman
ISBN-10: 3631660464
ISBN-13: 9783631660461
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Language: English
Published: 02/12/2015
Pages: 119
Format: Paperback
By Mariana Borcoman
By Mariana Borcoman
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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.

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