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As the name and sub-heading of this journal implies, The Inditer could be viewed as some as an anachronism. The name of the journal, The Inditer, is in itself an anachronistic word, no longer in use, but with many meanings. 'Inditer' through the ages, was scribe, the keeper of records, poet, author or writer. Not in fact an anachronism, the word literatorium is a rather nice sounding word which actually portrays a place where literature would be kept. The word 'library' was chosen instead.
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The church, the government of the day, as now, made up of bureaucrats, often an hierarchy, the members of which would not necessarily have the ability to read or to write. Therefore, in order to keep accurate records of births, deaths, anniversaries and after democracy, the proper times to vote, it would be incumbent upon those bureaucracies to have in their service a scribe, or an 'inditer'. Our word, in common use, 'indict' and it's variations have as a root, the word 'inditer'. |
