The Baltic Battle of Books

Formation and Relocation of European Libraries in the Confessional Age (C. 1500-C. 1650) and Their Afterlife
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-44120-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 116, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

This 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nordin, Jonas

Strenga, Gustavs

Sjökvist, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften, Archivwesen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

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 Levans 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-Liepina

14 Dissonance and Consonance in the Early Modern Battle of Books

A Personal Reading

Janis Kreslins

Illustrations

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jonas 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.