Book Review

• Published in: Teologia Vol. 84; no. 3; pp. 188 - 190
• Main Author: Dobrei, Florin
• Format: Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Editura Universității Aurel Vlaicu 2020; Aurel Vlaicu University Publishing House
• Subjects: Theology and Religion
• ISSN: 2247-4382

Mircea PĂCURARIU, Printing in the Romanian Orthodox Church, Andreiana Publishing House, Sibiu, 2016, 336 p. + XXXIX drawings with illustrations At the beginning of the 16th century, only six decades after the appearance of printing in the Western world (a relatively short time, compared to the overall scale of history), only two decades after the publication of the first books in Slavonic and only eight years after the end of the “incunabulumera”, at south of the Carpathians, near the old seat of Wallachia, namely at the Dealu monastery above Târgoviște, three books of inestimable cultural value saw the light of day: The Missal (1508), The Hymn Book(1510) and The Four Gospels (1512). And these prints, together with those that followed them, fulfilled not only a cultural and ecclesiastical role, but, by the fact that they circulated in all three Romanian countries, they were also a significant factor in the process of awareness of unity of the language, of the nation and of the minds of Romanians everywhere.