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

Nordin, Jonas LU orcid ; Strenga, Gustavs and Sjökvist, Peter (2023) In Library of the Written Word 116.
Abstract
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... (More)
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. (Less)
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LU orcid ; Strenga, Gustavs and Sjökvist, Peter
organization
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Book/Report
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published
subject
keywords
library history, book looting, spoils of war, Reformation, Jesuits, Thirty Years' War
in
Library of the Written Word
volume
116
pages
350 pages
publisher
Brill
ISSN
1874-4834
ISBN
978-90-04-44120-0
978-90-04-44121-7
project
The Baltic Battle of Books: Formation, Transfiguration and Relocation of European Libraries in the Confessional Age (c.1500–c.1650
language
English
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yes
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18efa388-0b60-4fe2-9461-ce4a231c7687
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https://brill.com/edcollbook-oa/title/59023
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2023-07-13 21:28:11
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2023-07-15 03:07:05
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