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

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Year of Publication
2023
Contributors Editor: Jonas Nordin
Editor: Gustavs Strenga
Editor: Peter Sjökvist
Series Title
Library of the written word
Volume
116
Language
Number of Pages
350 pp.
Publisher
Brill
City
Leiden, Netherlands
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ISBN
9789004441200
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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.