There Is Nothing Frightening In The Predictions Of Nostradamus - Alternative View

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There Is Nothing Frightening In The Predictions Of Nostradamus - Alternative View
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Pravda. Ru observer Igor Bukker and Nostradamus specialist, author of his only full-fledged biography, translator of his quatrains or centurias from the Old French original, historian Alexei Penzensky again gaze intently at the prophecies of the famous soothsayer.

New research of Nostradamus

What's new now happening in science, which studies the work of Nostradamus? What problems or blind spots are there?

- I keep in touch with my colleagues and I must say that in the West, even in France, there are not so many amateurs, or rather, not amateurs, not many researchers are engaged in this. 5-7 people, maybe at a professional level. There are many more lovers. 5-7 people write, and 2-3 thousand read. There are several reasons for this. On the one hand, of course, these scientific studies, which have been carried out for the last 2-3 decades, strongly demystified the figure of Nostradamus.

What science is doing this? Historians and philologists are engaged in this. This is a normal source study. These are studies of a literary monument in a cultural and historical context, where philologists work not even shoulder to shoulder, but back to back. The philologist conducts a linguistic analysis of this or that fragment. The historian explains what this could mean in the 16th century. This is the principle of historicism. Of course, this is pure science. There is no need to involve any mysticism, astrology, including.

Of the new discoveries, this is like the Strugatskys, if you tell the general reader what worries modern researchers of Nostradamus, they will just shrug their shoulders and it will all seem insanely boring to them. In France, the archives hardly burned. The provincial archives contain a lot of documents, including those from the 16th century. The paper was rag, we now print money on it, and before people wrote letters on it and concluded contracts. She is still white. Nothing rots. And there is just something there. Enthusiasts and researchers are rummaging around.

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And what did you find?

- We found, for example, the paper of a bookseller, by which one can judge the circulation, which published the books of Nostradamus. It is very interesting. Annual calendars, forecasts for each year, circulation was 10-15 thousand. Now any fiction writer dreams of such circulation in Russia with its universal literacy. And the prophecies, these centuries, they are conventionally called the centuries. They are not called that. But never mind. Prophecies. There, the circulation is 3 thousand copies. That is, the circulation was much less incommensurable. Nostradamus was known exclusively as the author of annual almanacs.

But these prophecies he wrote and published, rather for the soul. It was his opus magnum, his main text, to which he apparently attached great importance. And this is just one example. They find it in all sorts of handwritten diaries that have not been printed, have not been published, they find mention not of Nostradamus himself, unfortunately, but of the resonance that his texts had in his contemporary society in the middle of the 16th century. It also shows that Nostradamus was known, he was popular, he was very famous that this figure was not exaggerated, that it was not inflated in modern times. All this becomes available. New rare editions of the same almanacs are found in private collections at auctions. Several years ago, the collection was sold out, and including there was a unique almanac of Nostradamus, one of the first, in 1555. And the owners of the collection,God bless them health and every blessing, before putting it up for sale, they kindly allowed to scan this book and put it on the Internet.

Can specialists work with this material?

- Yes Yes. Without leaving home. My colleague Aleksey Valerievich Isaev, a specialist in the history of World War II, and Yegor Yakovlev, also a colleague, call this an archival revolution. This is truly a great thing. Thanks to the computer, thanks to the Internet, first of all, when you, without leaving your home, without applying for a visa, which is now generally very, very problematic, you can access copies of original documents.

It's great that you can work like that, but you, in my opinion, are destroying your own bread, if you demystified, as they put it, Nostradamus and the general public will not have such interest

- First, not everything should be measured in terms of money. Secondly, the main criterion is the establishment of the truth. As a rule, historians do not think about money.

Maybe, in the end, you will say something else from yourself, if you have such a need

- I want to wish one thing: I really like, in spite of everything, the mental state of my compatriots, contemporaries. Because I look around, I communicate with people, and the mood, attitudes towards these events related to COVID, above all, are generally healthy. There are enough covidiots, of course, but they do not set the tone. There is no revelry, hysterical revelry of illiteracy, as in Schweika, he put on a mask and was immediately poisoned.

For those who are interested in this topic, especially in connection with Nostradamus, since you are watching this video, dear friends, it means that you are interested. I strongly recommend that you do not take everything for granted when some incomprehensible blogger appears, who even speaks Russian with difficulty, writes his own opinion exclusively through a solid sign, and begins to us on behalf of Nostradamus, bulging eyes, whipping this hype foam, promise that we will all die, don't look, don't, don't trust it.

Interviewed by Igor Bukker