Memory-gestures around the Library of the Reformed College of Zilah/Zalău

Authors

  • Anna Farmati Babeş-Bolyai University, Department of Hungarian Literary Studies

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15170/PAAA.2018.05.01.05

Keywords:

cultural history, history of library, history of education, book culture, historical memory, Reformed College of Zilah (Zalău), Transylvania

Abstract

The study starts from a possessor’s note found in a volume by Calvin in 1816 by the old preacher Nagy Péter who has donated this 16th century book to the school library. This symbolic gesture will be used as guide in a process of establishment of a particular memory-construction. Through the presentation of school’s and library’s history, and mainly through the interpretation of the catalogue of this 16th-century Latin books is built up an interpretation which specifies this library not as a memory place, but rather as a science place (Christian Jacob’s term) in the context of his current use and cultural assessment. 

Photo: Zilahi Református Wesselényi Kollégium 

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Author Biography

Anna Farmati, Babeş-Bolyai University, Department of Hungarian Literary Studies

PhD, assistant professor

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Published

2018-06-29

How to Cite

Farmati, A. (2018). Memory-gestures around the Library of the Reformed College of Zilah/Zalău. Per Aspera Ad Astra, 5(1), 76–87. https://doi.org/10.15170/PAAA.2018.05.01.05

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2018): Book Culture in the Carpathian Basin – Book and Library Culture of the Protestant Churches

Section

Studies

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