Research Catalog

Title

How the secularization of religious houses transformed the libraries of Europe, 16th-19th centuries / edited by Cristina Dondi, Dorit Raines and Richard Sharpe.

Publication

• Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dondi, Cristina
• Raines, Dorit
• Sharpe, Richard, 1954-2020

Description

719 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait, charts, plan, facsimiles; 29 cm.

Summary

"The closure of religious bouses, in varying circumstances, affected ail of Europe at some point between the sixteenth and nineteenth century. At different times and in different countries the consequences were widely varied, in some cases preserving medieval and early modern collections intact, in others abandoning books to their fate, or transferring them piecemeal into new ownership to serve different cultural purposes. Integral preservation or dispersai may each be viewed in positive or negative ternis. For religious and political history there are many, and bigger, factors involved, and the effects of secularization worked on many things beside libraries and books. None the less, by focusing on books and libraries through these changes a particular narrative emerges of great cultural importance. It is the most important book-historical story for the survival and accessibility of Europe's heritage of the written word, one that interacts with major historical themes and still connects with future issues for the continuing role of books and libraries in the European heritage."--Page 4 of cover.

Series Statement

Bibliologia, elementa ad librorum studia pertinentia, 1375-9566 ; vol. 63

Uniform Title

Bibliologia (Turnhout, Belgium) ; vol. 63.

Subject

• Monastic libraries > Europe > History > Congresses
• Religious libraries > Europe > History > Congresses
• Secularization > Europe > History > Congresses
• Books > Europe > History > Congresses
• Religious communities > Europe > History > Congresses

Note

• Proceedings of the conference held in Oxford, 2012.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language (note)

• Includes texts in French, Italian or German.

Contents

Pt. 1. The Territorial and Temporal Map of the Dissolved Collections -- The Dissolution of Monasteries and Convents in Europe. An Overview of the Economic Implications -- Fiorenzo Landi -- Dissolution and Dispersion in Sixteenth-Century England : Understanding the Remains -- Richard Sharpe (t 2020) -- Klosteraufhebungen und das Schicksal fluer Bibliotheken in der Deutschschweiz -- Rudolf Gamper -- The Expropriation of Monastic Libraries in German-Speaking Europe, 1773-1817 -- Jeffrey Garrett -- The Secularization of SpanishReligious Libraries (1767-1836) : The Catalan Case -- Javier Ant6n Pelayo -- Case study 1 : Portugal, Porto - State policy Concerning the Dissolution of Monastic Book Collections in Portugal, Especially during the Nineteenth Century -- Luis Cabral -- Case study a : Spain, Seville and Madrid - The Formation of New Libraries -- Maria Luisa Lopez Vidriero -- The Secularization of Religions Houses in Latin America from Independence to the New Republics : Continuity and Fragmentation of Library Collections -- Pedro Rueda Ramirez -- Pt. 2. State Policy toward Book Collections -- The Dissolution of the Libraries of Venetian Religions Houses and the Keeper of the Library of St Mark, Jacopo Morelli, under Venetian, French, and Austrian Governments -- (1768-1819) -- Dorit Raines -- La politica delle soppressioni e le nuove biblioteche a Napoli tra illuminisme regalista e restaurazione (1767-1815) -- Vincenzo Trombetta -- Napoléon et les confiscations de livres dans les monastères italiens -- Marie-Pierre Laffitte -- Pt. 3. Sequestration, Redistribution, or Contribution to the Foundation of Public Libraries -- The Foundation of the City Library of Amsterdam (1578) and the Confiscation of Manuscripts and Printed Books from Ecclesiastical and Monastic Libraries. Fact or Fiction ? -- Jos A. A. M. Biemans -- Bibliothèques et suppressions ecclésiastiques en Toscane de Pierre-Léopold à Napoléon -- Emmanuelle Chapron -- La Biblioteca Vaticana e la dispersione delle biblioteche dei religiosi romani nella prima Repubblica Romana e nell'età napoleonica -- Andreina Rita -- The Dispersai of Monastic Libraries in Rome. The Laws of Suppression during the Roman Republic of1849 and aller the Annexation of the City as the Capital of the Kingdom of Italy in 1873 -- Marina Venier -- The Dissolution of Monasteries in Silesia and Poland -- Marek Derwich -- The dissolution of Roman-Catholic and Uniate Monasteries in the Western guberniyas of the Russian Empire and the fate of their libraries -- Oleh Dukh -- Pt. 4. Impact on Book Trade and the Emergence of Private Collections -- Le commerce du livre d'antiquariat en France après la Révolution -- Dominique Varry -- The Book Market in Nineteenth-century Venice -- Marino Zorzi -- "Duplum Bibliothecae regiae Monacensis". The Munich Court Library and its Book Auctions in the Nineteenth Century -- Bettina Wagner -- Monastir Collections and the Nineteenth-Century English Book Trade : A New Interest in Early Printed Fragments -- Richard A. Linenthal -- Pt. 5. Migration of Books, Access to New Publics -- Jesuit Libraries in the Southern Netherlands and their Dispersal after 1773 -- Bart op de Beeck -- Before Napoleon. Change and Continuity in Italian Religions Book Collections -- Antonella Barzazi -- North American Collection-Building : Gathering Monastic Books from Long Ago and Far Away -- William P. Stoneman -- Pt. 6. Destruction of Books, Spoils of War, and Clandestine Exportation -- The Fate of Medieval Religions Book Collections in the Swedish Realrn during the Reformation -- Tuomas Heikkilâ -- Zurich and the Books of the Monasteries : From the Reformation to the 19th Century -- Martin G ermann -- Pt. 7. Tools for Research -- Medieval Libraries of Great Britain : MLGB3 -- James Willoughby Material Evidence in Incunabula and Other Tools for Searching the Provenance of Early Printed Books -- Cristina Dondi The RICI Database. A Tool for the History of Religious Libraries in Italy at the End of the Sixteenth Century -- Giovanna Granata The Incunabula Collection of the Benedictine Library of S. Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. Formation, Use, and Dispersai according to Documentary and Material Evidence (from MEI) -- Cristina Dondi, Lavinia Prosdocimi, Dorit Raines.

Call Number

ReCAP 23-108884

ISBN

9782503593920

OCLC

• 1350570354
• AAL08206090-0001

Title

How the secularization of religious houses transformed the libraries of Europe, 16th-19th centuries / edited by Cristina Dondi, Dorit Raines and Richard Sharpe.

Publisher

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Bibliologia, elementa ad librorum studia pertinentia, 1375-9566 ; vol. 63

Bibliologia (Turnhout, Belgium) ; vol. 63.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language

Includes texts in French, Italian or German.

Added Author

Dondi, Cristina, editor.

Raines, Dorit, editor.

Sharpe, Richard, 1954-2020, editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 23-108884