Let's suppose that you have a time machine and you're going to be transported back to the year 1345 AD (picked randomly) and you can bring just one book. What would the title be and why would you bring it?
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Hmmm..are you saying that back in 1345, no one read the Bible?
In Europe from Greater Poland Westwards, a knowledge of Vulgate Latin was necessary;straight Eastwards, a knowledge of Old Church Slavonic; to the South-East, a knowledge of Demotic Greek; in the Middle-East, Aramaic; Egypt and Ethiopia, Coptic. Attempts at translating the Holy Bible were met by torture and the stake. The first person to translate the Bible and survive was Martin Luther. His magnificent work influenced the equally beautiful King James Bible as well as the structure of Modern German.
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When I posited the question, I thought that responders would bring a book that would be of value to them in that time period. Something that could be useful for them to survive or even prosper in 1345. Sorry for not being specific enough.
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Originally posted by AGNAR: When I posited the question, I thought that responders would bring a book that would be of value to them in that time period. Something that could be useful for them to survive or even prosper in 1345. Sorry for not being specific enough.
That being the case I would bring the 1345 Farmers Almanac.
I don't think books were written the way most people think of them today. The Bible yes, but I would imagine since the printing press came about 100 years later things were written on Scrolls,slate,animal skins, caves and were mostly religious stuff, and all hand written.That was the early years.Records of all kinds were wrote on paper, that had been made from fine linens. Paper as we know it was made in China first! So again, I would say the family Bible because this is where things were recorded, births deaths, deads, etc.
Depends were the time machine puts you on the planet but in that time period I would bring a book with as much info as possible about cures for the Black Death.
ORIGINALLY POSTED BY AGNAR: Let's suppose that you have a time machine and you're going to be transported back to the year 1345 AD (picked randomly) and you can bring just one book. What would the title be and why would you bring it?
Wa-a-i-t a minute! If we're going into a time machine, assuming the starting point is the present, to be transported back to the year 1345 AD, then I could bring a copy of "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" with me, couldn't I?
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Originally posted by BELMONT GIRL: ORIGINALLY POSTED BY AGNAR: Let's suppose that you have a time machine and you're going to be transported back to the year 1345 AD (picked randomly) and you can bring just one book. What would the title be and why would you bring it?
Wa-a-i-t a minute! If we're going into a time machine, assuming the starting point is the present, to be transported back to the year 1345 AD, then I could bring a copy of "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" with me, couldn't I?
But the question is, what good would that book do you in 1345?
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