The Baltic Battle of Books : : Formation and Relocation of European Libraries in the Confessional Age (C. 1500-C. 1650) and Their Afterlife / / edited by Jonas Nordin, Gustavs Strenga, and Peter Sjökvist.
"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 seventeent...
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| Superior document: | Library of the Written Word Series ; Volume 116 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands : : Brill,, [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of the written word. Handpress world ;
Volume 116. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 pages) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of 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.