Scraps of Thought: Margin Notes in Old Romanian Books
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Author_Mariana Borcoman
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- ISBN 9783631660461
- Weight: 180g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 12 Feb 2015
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: 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.
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.
