Books are more than the knowledge they contain. It is something curious for a concept to be known yet not grasped, to be common knowledge yet possessed with neither depth nor understanding. For long I have measured the value of … …
Synagogue as Starting Point
My sojourn in Besançon marks, I want to say, a turning point in my life. My bachelor’s I conducted at Princeton University, where I majored in English with a concentration in creative writing; within these two domains I focused mostly … …
A little text about me
My name is Jérémy, I’m 22 years old and I’m from Saone et Loire in France. In a first time I made an economic and social baccalaureate.
After this, I realised one year in STAPS but it wasn’t for me … …
A Journey from Byzantion to Besançon
“Neither history nor literature nor economics nor sociology nor bibliography can do justice to all the aspects of the life of a book. By its very nature, therefore, the history of books must be international in scale and interdisciplinary in … …
The magic of time travel
Digital humanities as a link between the past and the future
My name is Iana Sotnikova. For the past 13 years I’ve been working as an interpreter and translator. I graduated from foreign languages department at Kharkiv University of Humanities … …
On the road
The world of books can grab you and transmit you through the time. It’s a magic world and I’m happy that I can touch it.
My name is Tamara Glushetckaia, I graduated a technical school on the program «Publishing» and … …
Biblichor* makes me happy!
My name is Ali Abu Rmeileh, I am a Palestinian man from Jerusalem. I have developed a passion for manuscripts and early books since a young age. I entered the field of libraries and humanities in 2014, while i was … …
From Mexico to France: For the love of change in culture
When I first started talking about this master program to my friends and family they did not quite understand what was it about and until now I think they still have a lot of questions that I do not … …
My Voyage of Discovery in Early and Rarebooks
Education as I have known is life itself and a path to success. As a highly motivated graduate of Philosophy at Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria, I have gained distinctive ideas in different research areas. With my four years’ consistent … …
Books: A Living Well
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies…The man who never reads lives only one. George R.R. Martin
Books are like spaceships or teleporters. They have the incredible capacity to take you places: past, present or future; faraway places … …