Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2023
Author
Author: Emma Hagström Molin
Translator: Judith Rinker Öhman
Series Title
Library of the Written Word
Volume
111
Language
English
Number of Pages
217 pp.
Publisher
Brill
City
Leiden, Netherlands
Region
Europe
Library Type
Academic Libraries
Archives and Special Collections
Chronological Period
17th century
ISBN
9789004472051
Annotation

Translated from the Swedish 

Contents: 

  • In the King's Treasury
  • Placed in Chests: The Making of Cultural Spoils in Seventeenth-Century Europe and Beyond
  • Archive Trouble: The Mitau Files in Vasa History
  • Library Confessions: Catholic Books, Jesuit Epistemology and Temporality at Uppsala University Library
  • War Museums: Spolia Selecta in Carl Gustaf Wrangel's Skokloster
  • Spoils of Knowledge, Triumph and Trouble
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