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

ISBN 10: 9004441204 / ISBN 13: 9789004441200

Published by Brill Academic Pub, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Baltic Battle of Books: Formation and Relocation of European Libraries in the Confessional Age (C.1500 ?c. 1650) and Their Afterlife
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004441204
• ISBN 13: 9789004441200
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book allows to follow the long-term creation and transformation of Northern and Central European Catholic libraries: before and after the Reformation, well into the Confessional age.

About the Author

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.