The Baltic Battle of Books : Formation and Relocation of European Libraries in the Confessional Age (C. 1500-C. 1650) and Their Afterlife / edited by Jonas Nordin, Gustavs Strenga, and Peter Sjökvist.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nordin, Jonas, 1968- editor.

Strenga, Gustavs, editor.

Sjökvist, Peter, editor.

Series:

Library of the written word. Handpress world ; Volume 116.

Library of the Written Word Series ; Volume 116

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Libraries--Europe, Northern--History--1400-1600.

Libraries.

Libraries--Europe, Northern--History--17th century.

Libraries--Europe, Central--History--1400-1600.

Libraries--Europe, Central--History--17th century.

Monastic libraries--Europe--History.

Monastic libraries.

Libraries--Destruction and pillage--Europe--History.

Cultural property--Repatriation--Europe--History.

Cultural property.

Europe, Northern--Church history.

Europe, Northern.

Europe, Central--Church history.

Europe, Central.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"This book is about the creation, relocation, and reconstruction of libraries between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Confessionalization, that is, the era of religious division and struggle in Northern Europe following the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At the time different creeds clashed with each other, but it was also a period when the political and intellectual geography of Europe was redrawn. Centuries-old political, economic, and cultural networks fell apart and were replaced with new ones. Books and libraries were at the centre of these cultural, political, and religious transformations, frequently taken away as war booties and appropriated by their new owners in distant locations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1. Creating Libraries

Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts : the Liturgical and Musical Testimonies from the Cistercian Nunnery in Riga / Laine Tabora

Gradual Formation and Dramatic Transformation : Mendicant and Cistercian Book Collections in Late Medieval and Post-reformation Riga / Andris Levāns and Gustavs Strenga

The Printing of Missals and Breviaries as Ecclesiastical Authority in the Late-Medieval Baltic Region : a Battle between Printers or between Bishops? / Mattias Lundberg

A Game of Cities : Driving Forces in Early Modern Scandinavian Book History / Wolfgang Undorf

English and Scottish Jesuits and Print Culture of the Sixteenth-Century

Grand Duchy of Lithuania / Hanna Mazheika

Pre-suppression Jesuit Libraries : Patterns of Collection and Use in Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe / Kathleen M. Comerford

Part 2. Relocating Libraries

Building a Nation through Books : From Military to Cultural Armament in Seventeenth-Century Sweden / Jonas Nordin

War Booty of Books from Olomouc : Catholic Libraries in Lutheran Sweden /

Lenka Veselá

Useful Literary Spoils of War from Riga at Uppsala University Library / Peter Sjökvist

Battles of Books in Denmark from the Reformation to the Great Northern War / Anders Toftgaard

'An Ornament for the Church and the Gymnasium' : The War Booty in Strängnäs Cathedral and Its Relation to the School / Elin Andersson

Part 3. Reconstructing Libraries

The Fragment of the Personal Library of Johannes Poliander in the National Library of Poland / Fryderyk Rozen

The Fate of the Riga Jesuit College Library (1583-1621) : Aspects of Research into a Historic and Unique Book Collection in the Digital Age / Laura Kreigere-Liepiņa

Dissonance and Consonance in the Early Modern Battle of Books : a Personal Reading / Janis Kreslins.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

90-04-44121-2

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access