War booty of books from Olomouc. Catholic libraries in Lutheran Sweden
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985971%3A_____%2F23%3A00574425" target="_blank" >RIV/67985971:_____/23:00574425 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004441217_010" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004441217_010</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004441217_010" target="_blank" >10.1163/9789004441217_010</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
War booty of books from Olomouc. Catholic libraries in Lutheran Sweden
Original language description
The aim of the study is to reconstruct the course of the confiscation of books in Olomouc by Swedish troops in 1642-1646 and to present the current state of mapping of the preserved books. The case of the Swedish book booty from Olomouc is exceptional in the context of the Thirty Years' War, both because of the long stay of the Swedish troops in the city and because no original catalog of the books taken has survived. The study reveals that the process did not follow any simplistic scheme, as it might appear from contemporary narrative sources or subsequent historiography. What influenced the course of the book confiscations, apart from the lack of motivation and interest of the Swedish command, was the untypical situation of the long-term occupation of the town, the necessity of long-term coexistence and at least informal respect for the legal status of the religious institutions and their inhabitants. Moreover, the extent of the surviving specimens has shown that the spoils from Olomouc were among the most extensive in Bohemia. The key topics will also include the importance of these libraries for the history of Czech book culture before 1650 and documenting the “second life” of these libraries after their transport to Lutheran Sweden and watching their changing functions in a new environment.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA22-06083S" target="_blank" >GA22-06083S: The Swedish War Booty of Books from the Czech Lands</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
The Baltic battle of books. Formation and relocation of European libraries in the Confessional age (c. 1500–c. 1650) and their afterlife
ISBN
978-90-04-44120-0
Number of pages of the result
17
Pages from-to
179-196
Number of pages of the book
342
Publisher name
Brill
Place of publication
Leiden
UT code for WoS chapter
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