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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jonas Nordin , Gustavs Strenga , Peter SjökvistPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 116 Weight: 0.725kg ISBN: 9789004441200ISBN 10: 9004441204 Pages: 350 Publication Date: 10 August 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents 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 IndexReviewsAuthor InformationJonas Nordin, PhD, is Professor of Book and Library History at Lund University. His research is mainly focused on book culture and intellectual history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Gustavs Strenga, PhD, is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Greifswald and a Senior Researcher at the National Library of Latvia. The history of medieval Livonia, memory studies, remembrance of medieval heroes, ethnicity in the Middle Ages, gift giving as a historical phenomenon, and book history are his main academic interests. Peter Sjökvist, PhD, is Associate Professor of Latin at Uppsala University and Rare Books Librarian at Uppsala University Library. His research interests are early modern occasional poetry, dissertation culture, and literary spoils of war. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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