Abstract
This article is part of a broader research regarding the evolution of mentalities in the period starting with the 16th century, the aim of the present research being to identify and discuss the ways in which people in those days perceived time. Our research focused on the material provided by the marginal notes—with a value of their own—made by readers on the pages of manuscripts from Moldavia over the span of more than 400 years. The main instruments we have employed are analysis and synthesis, from a diachronic perspective, from particular to general, by means of the inductive method. As a result, an image has been shaped of the means by which the event, as an element of time, was perceived and rendered, and of the way in which time becomes the fundamental landmark of life, the one that comprises, marks, and generates the entire reality.
Highlights
Most of the books that have been read in the Romanian Countries comprise, along with the text itself, hundreds of notes on the white sheets in the beginning or in the end of the book, on the sheets that serve to the binding of the volume, on the margins of the pages or, most often, at the end of the text
The tomes of documents edited by the historians from Iași cover a long period, starting with the 13th of March 1429 until the Small Union, in 1859; the material they make available is rich, heterogeneous and extremely interesting, which acquires an independent value and becomes a distinct literature providing a fresco of a bygone age
In terms of dating the recorded events, the marginal notes from the corpus edited by Ioan Caproșu și
Summary
Most of the books that have been read in the Romanian Countries comprise, along with the text itself, hundreds of notes on the white sheets in the beginning or in the end of the book, on the sheets that serve to the binding of the volume, on the margins of the pages or, most often, at the end of the text. The multidisciplinary nature of the old notes makes them real sources (which are unique in their specificity) for the research in various fields, for the knowledge of the Romanian history, culture and language. This very wide range of semi-anonymous chronicles recomposes an image of the mental universe of the Romanian society in the former centuries. Either they record the trying of the pen, the owner, the donation, personal information, natural phenomena or historical events etc., many notes are dated, assuming a temporal dimension. The perception of time in the marginal notes is relevant in the attempt to define some specific mental structures
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