Inside the manor, in the office.
Roland and Princess Rosa chatted and laughed.
Their conversation, however, concerned neither romance nor idle pleasures, but the Lainer Encyclopedia.
Roland was sharing his valuable experience with Princess Rosa.
Princess Rosa listened attentively, taking notes with her pen.
Having worked as a secretary for some time now, she was naturally very proficient in the practical Copying Spell.
"Commentaries on the classics, formats for historical works, and the like have their counterparts in Lainer World, and even in Atrelin.
Unfortunately, they are scattered fragments, without any coherent system.
That is because the magical world has no concept of developing mortal civilization; its focus is on supernatural power itself.
By comparison, experience in these cultural undertakings is truly pitifully scarce.
I gave it some thought (borrowed some ideas) and sorted out the relationships between them.
Explanatory annotations on the classics are also known as traditions, glosses, interpretations, or analyses of chapters and sentences. Subcommentaries explain those annotations, and are also called expositions of meaning, correct interpretations, or elucidations.
These concern authentic and borrowed characters in the classics, the meanings of words and phrases, correct and incorrect pronunciations, grammar and rhetoric, as well as named objects, institutions, historical facts, and so on.
The magical portions focus on analyzing magic power, and we can draw upon books from Atrelin when transcribing them.
As for historical works, there are annalistic histories, the Biographical Annals Style, event-based narratives, histories organized by state, general histories, dynastic histories..."
Everything Roland described came from what he had learned in his previous life.
Before the rise of the sciences, these had been civilization's mainstream branches of knowledge.
Without a thorough understanding of systematic undertakings such as compiling books and histories, Roland could never have led such a project.
Now, he had introduced what he