The Baltic Battle of Books : Formation and Relocation of European Libraries in the Confessional Age (c.1500 ̵c. 1650) and Their Afterlife (Library of the Written Word - the Handpress World)

Nordin, Jonas (EDT)/ Strenga, Gustavs (EDT)/ Sjökvist, Peter (EDT)

Brill（2023/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 382 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004441200

Full Description

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 in which 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 seized as war booties and appropriated by their new owners in distant locations.

Contents

Contents

Contents

Preface

 Jonas Nordin, Peter Sjökvist and Gustavs Strenga

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

A Battle of Books through Five Centuries

 Jonas Nordin, Peter Sjökvist and Gustavs Strenga

Part 1: Creating Libraries

1 Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts

 The Liturgical and Musical Testimonies from the Cistercian Nunnery in Riga

 Laine Tabora

2 Gradual Formation and Dramatic Transformation

 Mendicant and Cistercian Book Collections in Late Medieval and Post-reformation Riga

 Andris Levāns and Gustavs Strenga

3 The Printing of Missals and Breviaries as Ecclesiastical Authority in the Late-Medieval Baltic Region

 A Battle between Printers or between Bishops?

 Mattias Lundberg

4 A Game of Cities

 Driving Forces in Early Modern Scandinavian Book History

 Wolfgang Undorf

5 English and Scottish Jesuits and Print Culture of the Sixteenth-Century Grand Duchy of Lithuania

 Hanna Mazheika

6 Pre-suppression Jesuit Libraries

 Patterns of Collection and Use in Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe

 Kathleen M. Comerford

Part 2: Relocating Libraries

7 Building a Nation through Books

 From Military to Cultural Armament in Seventeenth-Century Sweden

 Jonas Nordin

8 War Booty of Books from Olomouc

 Catholic Libraries in Lutheran Sweden

 Lenka Veselá

9 Useful Literary Spoils of War from Riga at Uppsala University Library

 Peter Sjökvist

10 Battles of Books in Denmark from the Reformation to the Great Northern War

 Anders Toftgaard

11 '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

12 The Fragment of the Personal Library of Johannes Poliander in the National Library of Poland

 Fryderyk Rozen

13 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

14 Dissonance and Consonance in the Early Modern Battle of Books

 A Personal Reading

 Janis Kreslins

Illustrations

Index