TIPOGRAFIA RÂMNICULUI (1636-1825)
TIPOGRAFIA RÂMNICULUI (1636-1825)

Author(s): SERGIU-GRIGORE POPESCU
Subject(s): Theology and Religion
Published by: Sfântul Ierarh Antim Ivireanul - ctitor de cultură şi spiritualitate românească
Keywords: printing; printers; Râmnic; books
Summary/Abstract: The activity of printing began in the Diocese Râmnic in the first half of the seventeenth century, through the care of Prince Matei Basarab, who will use his connections with Metropolitan Petru Movila of Kiev to bring a printing company and craftsmen, who were seated at Govora monastery, here been printed five books (in five years). In the eighteenth century, cultural activity in the Diocese of Ramnic reaches its climax, first under the leadership of Saint Antim Ivireanul, who will bring again the technique of printing on these lands, by printing nine books, and then under the leadership of bishop Damaschin The Teacher, a great scholar, a militant for replacing in the cult of Slavonic with the Romanian language. He has devoted his entire activity to the translation of religious ritual books in Romanian, having a great contribution to the formation of Romanian literary language. Although printed least in life, his work has been exploited by his successors until 1825. Typography from Râmnic contributed to the defense of Orthodoxy in Transylvania, threatened by Catholic proselytism, especially after the events of 1698-1701. Books printed here were widely circulating in Transylvania, Maramureș and Banat.

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