Scraps of Thought: Margin Notes in Old Romanian Books

by Mariana Borcoman

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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 t