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Warsaw, Poland
Joined June 2021
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📚 The new volume of Renaissance Mind (ed. V. Lepri & F. G. Kiss) is out now! Discover how early modern classrooms and scholarly debates shaped revolutionary ideas.
🔗 Grab your copy here: degruyterbrill.com/document/…
Huge thanks to Gábor Förköli for sending us a copy of "Writing in the Mind, Thinking on the Paper"! 📚✨
A brilliant, deeply insightful look into early modern commonplacing and the roots of information management. Highly recommended! 🙌
Join us for the round table discussion: “What Counts as Knowledge?” 🎓
🗓️ When: Thursday, 1 Oct at 10:30 AM 📍 Where: Staszic Palace, Room 268 (ul. Nowy Świat 72, Warsaw) 🗣️
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📚 Join us this Wed, Sep 16 at 2 PM for the presentation of Mykola Fediai’s new book: "Latin Philosophy and Greek Faith"!
📍 Barbara Skarga Room, Staszic Palace 📖 Read Open Access: books.fupress.com/catalogue/…
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Our team member Gábor Förköli presented at the Congress of Hungarology in Sárospatak!
His talk showed how early modern quote-gathering (loci communes) acted as personal "ego-documents" shaping religious identity & individual faith.
In the 1500s, a student reading Aristotle scribbled tips on buying a good horse in the margins—in Greek, German & Latin. 📜🐎
Is this famous 1687 engraving a lie? 🧵
At first glance, it’s a grand library in Danzig. But look closely. The books, scholars, and light were staged to project power, not document reality.
Here is the hidden story behind the image 👇
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In 17th-century Germany, depositio cornuum (academic hazing) was an indispensable prerequisite for matriculation. Yet in 1622, Hungarian and Transylvanian students in Frankfurt an der Oder were granted a rare dispensation.
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Ancient texts don’t stay relevant simply because they are old. Sometimes, a shift in the world around us simply makes us capable of hearing their message again.
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Why do we keep notebooks? Because the fate of the world depends on it. 📓
In 1575, educator Johann Sturm argued that note-taking doesn't just mirror nature - it helps fix its flaws. Turns out, your notes might just be saving the world.
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