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The Baltic Battle of Books
Formation and Relocation of European Libraries in the Confessional Age (c. 1500âc. 1650) and Their Afterlife
Series: - Library of the Written Word, Volume: 116
- Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 116
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.
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.
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.
Contents
Contents
Preface
âJonas Nordin, Peter Sjökvist and Gustavs Strenga
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
A Battle of Books through Five Centuries
âJonas Nordin, Peter Sjökvist and Gustavs Strenga
1 Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts
âThe Liturgical and Musical Testimonies from the Cistercian Nunnery in Riga
âLaine Tabora
2 Gradual Formation and Dramatic Transformation
âMendicant and Cistercian Book Collections in Late Medieval and Post-reformation Riga
âAndris LevÄns and Gustavs Strenga
3 The Printing of Missals and Breviaries as Ecclesiastical Authority in the Late-Medieval Baltic Region
âA Battle between Printers or between Bishops?
âMattias Lundberg
4 A Game of Cities
âDriving Forces in Early Modern Scandinavian Book History
âWolfgang Undorf
5 English and Scottish Jesuits and Print Culture of the Sixteenth-Century Grand Duchy of Lithuania
âHanna Mazheika
6 Pre-suppression Jesuit Libraries
âPatterns of Collection and Use in Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe
âKathleen M. Comerford
7 Building a Nation through Books
âFrom Military to Cultural Armament in Seventeenth-Century Sweden
âJonas Nordin
8 War Booty of Books from Olomouc
âCatholic Libraries in Lutheran Sweden
âLenka Veselá
9 Useful Literary Spoils of War from Riga at Uppsala University Library
âPeter Sjökvist
10 Battles of Books in Denmark from the Reformation to the Great Northern War
âAnders Toftgaard
11 âAn Ornament for the Church and the Gymnasiumâ
âThe War Booty in Strängnäs Cathedral and Its Relation to the School
âElin Andersson
12 The Fragment of the Personal Library of Johannes Poliander in the National Library of Poland
âFryderyk Rozen
13 The Fate of the Riga Jesuit College Library (1583â1621)
âAspects of Research into a Historic and Unique Book Collection in the Digital Age
âLaura Kreigere-LiepiÅa
14 Dissonance and Consonance in the Early Modern Battle of Books
âA Personal Reading
âJanis Kreslins
Illustrations
Index
Contents
Preface
âJonas Nordin, Peter Sjökvist and Gustavs Strenga
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
A Battle of Books through Five Centuries
âJonas Nordin, Peter Sjökvist and Gustavs Strenga
Part 1: Creating Libraries
1 Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts
âThe Liturgical and Musical Testimonies from the Cistercian Nunnery in Riga
âLaine Tabora
2 Gradual Formation and Dramatic Transformation
âMendicant and Cistercian Book Collections in Late Medieval and Post-reformation Riga
âAndris LevÄns and Gustavs Strenga
3 The Printing of Missals and Breviaries as Ecclesiastical Authority in the Late-Medieval Baltic Region
âA Battle between Printers or between Bishops?
âMattias Lundberg
4 A Game of Cities
âDriving Forces in Early Modern Scandinavian Book History
âWolfgang Undorf
5 English and Scottish Jesuits and Print Culture of the Sixteenth-Century Grand Duchy of Lithuania
âHanna Mazheika
6 Pre-suppression Jesuit Libraries
âPatterns of Collection and Use in Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe
âKathleen M. Comerford
Part 2: Relocating Libraries
7 Building a Nation through Books
âFrom Military to Cultural Armament in Seventeenth-Century Sweden
âJonas Nordin
8 War Booty of Books from Olomouc
âCatholic Libraries in Lutheran Sweden
âLenka Veselá
9 Useful Literary Spoils of War from Riga at Uppsala University Library
âPeter Sjökvist
10 Battles of Books in Denmark from the Reformation to the Great Northern War
âAnders Toftgaard
11 âAn Ornament for the Church and the Gymnasiumâ
âThe War Booty in Strängnäs Cathedral and Its Relation to the School
âElin Andersson
Part 3: Reconstructing Libraries
12 The Fragment of the Personal Library of Johannes Poliander in the National Library of Poland
âFryderyk Rozen
13 The Fate of the Riga Jesuit College Library (1583â1621)
âAspects of Research into a Historic and Unique Book Collection in the Digital Age
âLaura Kreigere-LiepiÅa
14 Dissonance and Consonance in the Early Modern Battle of Books
âA Personal Reading
âJanis Kreslins
Illustrations
Index
Readers interested in late medieval book collections, Jesuit libraries, libraries as war booties, and reconstruction of historical collections in the twenty-first century. The book is intended for scholars working in the field of book history, but will also appeal to those interested in church history, the early modern history of Northern Europe, Jesuit studies, the history of early modern Sweden, the Counter-Reformation, and the history of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth.
Keywords: Northern European history, medieval libraries, Jesuit Order, Jesuit libraries, Confessional wars, Gustavus Adolphus, Piers Plowman, early modern Sweden, Baltic States, Poland, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, war booty, looted books.
Keywords: Northern European history, medieval libraries, Jesuit Order, Jesuit libraries, Confessional wars, Gustavus Adolphus, Piers Plowman, early modern Sweden, Baltic States, Poland, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, war booty, looted books.