The Baltic Battle of Books: Formation and Relocation of European libraries in the Confessional Age (c.1500-1650) and Their Afterlife

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.