Note-taking and Notebooks as Channels of Medieval Academic Dissemination across Europe

Project description

Student notebooks shed light on how knowledge was formed and transmitted

Academic success hinges on many factors. One of these is good note-taking skills. Good note-taking improves active listening as well as material comprehension and retention. However, it is not a new practice; students have been taking notes for hundreds of years. The EU-funded NOTA project will study medieval notebooks produced in the context of late medieval universities. By studying a corpus of Latin manuscripts, the project will delve deep into creative reflections on the motivation and the technical aspects involved in producing notebooks. Specifically, it will study the 14th and 15th centuries, when paper entered universities, elucidating how knowledge was formed and disseminated by means of note-taking.

Fields of science

Host institution

UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI

Net EU contribution

€ 1 175 100,00

Address

Mihail Kogalniceanu 1
400084 Cluj Napoca
Romania

Region

Macroregiunea Unu Nord-Vest Cluj

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

Links

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Participation in EU R&I programmes

HORIZON collaboration network

Other funding

€ 0,00

Beneficiaries (1)