TY - SER
AU - Cristina Dondi
AU - Dorit Raines
AU - Richard Sharpe
BT - Bibliologia : Elementa ad Librorum Studia Pertinentia
CY - Turnhout, Belgium
LA - English
N1 -
24 contributions in English, 3 in French, 2 in Italian, and 1 in German
Contents:
- Part 1. The territorial and temporal map of the dissolved collections
- The Dissolution of Monasteries and Convents in Europe. An Overview of the Economic Implications / Fiorenzo Landi
- Dissolution and Dispersion in Sixteenth-Century England: Understanding the Remains / Richard Sharpe
- Klosteraufhebungen und das Schicksal ihrer Bibliotheken in der Deutschschweiz / Rudolf Gamper
- The Expropriation of Monastic Libraries in German-Speaking Europe, 1773-1817 / Jeffrey Garrett
- The Secularization of Spanish Religious Libraries (1767-1836): The Catalan Case / Javier Antón Pelayo
- Case study 1: Portugal, Porto - State policy Concerning the Dissolution of Monastic Book Collections in Portugal, Especially during the Nineteenth Century / Luís Cabral
- Case study 2: Spain, Seville and Madrid - The Formation of New Libraries / Maria Luisa Lopez Vidriero
- The Secularization of Religious Houses in Latin America from Independence to the New Republics: Continuity and Fragmentation of Library Collections / Pedro Rueda Ramírez
- Part 2. State policy toward book collections
- The Dissolution of the Libraries of Venetian Religious Houses and the Keeper of the Library of St Mark, Jacopo Morelli, under Venetian, French, and Austrian Governments (1768-1819) /Dorit Raines
- La politica delle soppressioni e le nuove biblioteche a Napoli tra illuminismo regalista e restaurazione (1767-1815) / Vincenzo Trombetta
- Napoléon et les confiscations de livres dans les monastères italiens / Marie-Pierre Laffitte
- Part 3. Sequestration, redistribution, or contribution to the foundation of public libraries
- The Foundation of the City Library of Amsterdam (1578) and the Confiscation of Manuscripts and Printed Books from Ecclesiastical and Monastic Libraries. Fact or Fiction? / Jos A. A. M. Biemans
- Bibliothèques et suppressions ecclésiastiques en Toscane de Pierre-Léopold à Napoléon / Emmanuelle Chapron
- La Biblioteca Vaticana e la dispersione delle biblioteche dei religiosi romani nella prima Repubblica Romana e nell'età napoleonica / Andreina Rita
- The Dispersal of Monastic Libraries in Rome. The Laws of Suppression during the Roman Republic of 1849 and after the Annexation of the City as the Capital of the Kingdom of Italy in 1873 / Marina Venier
- The Dissolution of Monasteries in Silesia and Poland / Marek Derwich
- The dissolution of Roman-Catholic and Uniate Monasteries in the Western guberniyas of the Russian Empire and the fate of their libraries / Oleh Dukh
- Part 4. Impact on book trade and the emergence of private collections
- Le commerce du livre d'antiquariat en France après la Révolution / Dominique Varry
- The Book Market in Nineteenth-century Venice / Marino Zorzi
- "Duplum Bibliothecae regiae Monacensis". The Munich Court Library and its Book Auctions in the Nineteenth Century / Bettina Wagner
- Monastic Collections and the Nineteenth-Century English Book Trade: A New Interest in Early Printed Fragments / Richard A. Linenthal
- Part 5. Migration of books, access to new publics
- Jesuit Libraries in the Southern Netherlands and their Dispersal after 1773 / Bart op de Beeck
- Before Napoleon. Change and Continuity in Italian Religious Book Collections / Antonella Barzazi
- North American Collection-Building: Gathering Monastic Books from Long Ago and Far Away / William P. Stoneman
- Part 6. Destruction of books, spoils of war, and clandestine exportation
- The Fate of Medieval Religious Book Collections in the Swedish Realm during the Reformation / Tuomas Heikkilä
- Zurich and the Books of the Monasteries: From the Reformation to the 19th Century / Martin Germann
- Part 7. Tools for research
- Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: MLGB3 / James Willoughby
- Material Evidence in Incunabula and Other Tools for Searching the Provenance of Early Printed Books / Cristina Dondi
- The RICI Database. A Tool for the History of Religious Libraries in Italy at the End of the Sixteenth Century / Giovanna Granata
- The Incunabula Collection of the Benedictine Library of S. Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. Formation, Use, and Dispersal according to Documentary and Material Evidence (from MEI) / Cristina Dondi, Lavinia Prosdocimi, Dorit Raines
PB - Brepols
PP - Turnhout, Belgium
PY - 2022
SN - 9782503593920
EP - 719 pp.
T2 - Bibliologia : Elementa ad Librorum Studia Pertinentia
TI - How the Secularization of Religious Houses Transformed the Libraries of Europe, 16th-19th Centuries
VL - 63
ER -