Original scientific paper
From the Treasures of Croatian Books. Šime Jurić's Contributions to Philosophical and Cultural-Historical Historiography
Ljerka Schiffler
; Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
After a brief historiographical survey of some of the basic tenets, endeavors, and results of Croatian cultural and philosophical heritage, the paper analyzes the aspects of Šime Jurić’s (Sinj, May 18, 1915 – Zagreb, October 27, 2004) ample work. A bibliographer, librarian, and a bibliophile, he was particularly active doing research in and discovering, listing, and interpreting the unknown manuscripts and literary heritage in many domestic and foreign public and private libraries, as well as in the libraries belonging to various religious orders. Following the historical development of Croatian books, literacy, printing, and booktrade, from the most ancient Glagolitic medieval times to the more recent periods, raising numerous technical and methodological questions, many of them still unanswered, Jurić’s opus and his critical warnings and remarks concerning this basically scientific discipline indebted the future researchers of a wide scientific profile: historians, philologists, linguists, Croatologists, Croatists, historians of culture, philosophy, art, and of the Catholic Church. The paper is aimed to identify Jurić’s place in Croatian 20th century historiography.
Keywords
Croatian historiography; cultural history; philosophy; philology; Glagolitics; medieval history; Latinism; modern age; Šime Jurić
Hrčak ID:
66821
URI
Publication date:
7.12.2009.
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