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

Jonas Nordin; Gustavs Strenga; Peter Sjökvist

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

Jonas Nordin (Editor), Gustavs Strenga (Editor), Peter Sjökvist (Editor)

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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.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Leiden
Publisher	Brill
Number of pages	350
ISBN (Electronic)	978-90-04-44121-7
ISBN (Print)	978-90-04-44120-0
Publication status	Published - 2023 Jul 3

Publication series

Name	Library of the Written Word
Publisher	Brill
Volume	116
ISSN (Print)	1874-4834

Name	Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World
Publisher	Brill
Volume	116

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library history
book looting
spoils of war
Reformation
Jesuits
Thirty Years' War

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A Battle of Books through Five Centuries
Nordin, J., Sjökvist, P. & Strenga, G., 2023 Jul 3, The Baltic Battle of Books: Formation and Relocation of European Libraries in the Confessional Age (c. 1500–1650) and Their Afterlife. Nordin, J., Strenga, G. & Sjökvist, P. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 1-10 10 p. (Library of the Written Word; vol. 116)(Edit Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World; vol. 116).
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Nordin, J., 2023 Jul 3, The Baltic Battle of Books: Formation and Relocation of European Libraries in the Confessional Age (c. 1500–1650) and Their Afterlife. Nordin, J., Strenga, G. & Sjökvist, P. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 151–178 28 p. (Library of the Written Word; vol. 116)(Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World; vol. 116).
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The Baltic Battle of Books: Formation, Transfiguration and Relocation of European Libraries in the Confessional Age (c.1500–c.1650
Nordin, J., Sjökvist, P. & Strenga, G.
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The Baltic Battle of Books
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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

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A Battle of Books through Five Centuries

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