Spoils of Knowledge
Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries
Publisher: BRILL
Date of Publication: 30 March 2023
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9789004472051 |
| ISBN10: | 9004472053 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 218 pages |
| Size: | 235x155 mm |
| Weight: | 493 g |
| Language: | English |
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Short description:
Emma Hagström Molin uncovers the history of a most peculiar heritage: seventeenth-century plunder in the form of archival documents, manuscripts and books preserved in Swedish archives and libraries.
Long description:
In Spoils of Knowledge, Emma Hagström Molin offers novel perspectives on document and book plundering. At the forefront of her study is the controversial heritage connected to the Swedish Empire (1611?1721) kept in Swedish archives and libraries. Previous studies suggest that continental spoils were perceived as an inferior and problematic category, and that Catholic books in particular were hard to accommodate in Protestant libraries. However, by considering systems of classification and collection orders of archives and libraries, Hagström Molin unearths a much more complex history of how plundered knowledge was appreciated, used and fused with its new Swedish settings. Moreover, spanning a history of four hundred years, this book shows that the understanding of spoils changed significantly over time.
This is a translation of: Krigsbytets Biografi. Byten i Riksarkivet, Uppsala universitetsbibliotek och Skokloster slott under 1600-talet (Gothenburg: Makadam, 2015).
Listen to the podcast with Emma Hagström Molin on New Books Network.
This is a translation of: Krigsbytets Biografi. Byten i Riksarkivet, Uppsala universitetsbibliotek och Skokloster slott under 1600-talet (Gothenburg: Makadam, 2015).
Listen to the podcast with Emma Hagström Molin on New Books Network.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction: In the King?s Treasury
1 Uncovering Spoils of Knowledge in Swedish Collections
2 Writing Histories from Spoils: Methodological and Contextual Considerations
3 Cases and Sources: Spoils in Inventories, Lists and Catalogues
4 Some Prerequisites for Swedish Imperial Collecting
1 Placed in Chests: The Making of Cultural Spoils in Seventeenth
-Century Europe and Beyond
1 Plundering and Ruining in the Age of Grotius
2 Plundering, Ruining and Cultural Plunder in Swedish Sources
3 Cultural Plunder in Livonia, Prussia and Denmark
4 Collecting and Conserving Archives and Libraries
5 The Notable Absence of Spoils, Spolia and Trophies
6 Conclusion: Unstable Spoils of War
2 Archive Trouble: The Mitau Files in Vasa History
1 Archive Fever in Vasa Administration
2 The Documents from Mitau
3 The Material, Geography and Rarity of Archival Spoils
4 ?As a Soul within a Body?: Archive Rooms
5 Utter?s Archive Order: Documents Narrating Vasa History
6 The Mitau Documents? Transformations
7 Restitution and Rebirth
8 Post
-Fire Order, Collectors and Thieves
9 Conclusion: Archive Trouble
3 Library Confessions: Catholic Books, Jesuit Epistemology and Temporality at Uppsala University Library
1 ?It Is Not Extraordinary?: Library Beginnings
2 The Material, Geography and Confession of Library Spoils
3 Parting of the Prussian Spoils
4 Library Materialisations
5 Ordering the Collections
6 The Effects of Spoils
7 Material and Immaterial Movements
8 Mould and Disorder: The Challenges of Preservation
9 Back in the War Chests
10 Conclusion: Library Confessions
4 War Museums: Spolia Selecta in Carl Gustaf Wrangel?s Skokloster
1 The Encyclopaedic Museums of Skokloster: Beginnings
2 The Creation of the Rothkirch Spoils
3 Confessional Spoils
4 Varieties of Booty
5 Practical Spoils
6 The Wrangel Library at Skokloster: Past and Present
7 Discrepancy in the Descriptions and Numbers of Wrangel?s Book Spoils
8 Bibliotheca Selecta, Spolia Selecta
9 Wrangel?s Armoury and the Rothkirch Spoils
10 Art Chambers, War and Genealogical Spoils
11 Skokloster?s Geography
12 Skokloster?s Narrative and Temporal Tangle
13 Conclusion: War Museums
Conclusion: Spoils of Knowledge, Triumph and Trouble
1 Making Spoils in the Seventeenth Century
2 Triumph and Trouble: The Effects of Knowledge Spoils
3 Enduring Instabilities: From Spoils of Knowledge to Swedish Spoils of War, Reconstructions and Restitutions
Bibliography
Illustrations
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction: In the King?s Treasury
1 Uncovering Spoils of Knowledge in Swedish Collections
2 Writing Histories from Spoils: Methodological and Contextual Considerations
3 Cases and Sources: Spoils in Inventories, Lists and Catalogues
4 Some Prerequisites for Swedish Imperial Collecting
1 Placed in Chests: The Making of Cultural Spoils in Seventeenth
-Century Europe and Beyond
1 Plundering and Ruining in the Age of Grotius
2 Plundering, Ruining and Cultural Plunder in Swedish Sources
3 Cultural Plunder in Livonia, Prussia and Denmark
4 Collecting and Conserving Archives and Libraries
5 The Notable Absence of Spoils, Spolia and Trophies
6 Conclusion: Unstable Spoils of War
2 Archive Trouble: The Mitau Files in Vasa History
1 Archive Fever in Vasa Administration
2 The Documents from Mitau
3 The Material, Geography and Rarity of Archival Spoils
4 ?As a Soul within a Body?: Archive Rooms
5 Utter?s Archive Order: Documents Narrating Vasa History
6 The Mitau Documents? Transformations
7 Restitution and Rebirth
8 Post
-Fire Order, Collectors and Thieves
9 Conclusion: Archive Trouble
3 Library Confessions: Catholic Books, Jesuit Epistemology and Temporality at Uppsala University Library
1 ?It Is Not Extraordinary?: Library Beginnings
2 The Material, Geography and Confession of Library Spoils
3 Parting of the Prussian Spoils
4 Library Materialisations
5 Ordering the Collections
6 The Effects of Spoils
7 Material and Immaterial Movements
8 Mould and Disorder: The Challenges of Preservation
9 Back in the War Chests
10 Conclusion: Library Confessions
4 War Museums: Spolia Selecta in Carl Gustaf Wrangel?s Skokloster
1 The Encyclopaedic Museums of Skokloster: Beginnings
2 The Creation of the Rothkirch Spoils
3 Confessional Spoils
4 Varieties of Booty
5 Practical Spoils
6 The Wrangel Library at Skokloster: Past and Present
7 Discrepancy in the Descriptions and Numbers of Wrangel?s Book Spoils
8 Bibliotheca Selecta, Spolia Selecta
9 Wrangel?s Armoury and the Rothkirch Spoils
10 Art Chambers, War and Genealogical Spoils
11 Skokloster?s Geography
12 Skokloster?s Narrative and Temporal Tangle
13 Conclusion: War Museums
Conclusion: Spoils of Knowledge, Triumph and Trouble
1 Making Spoils in the Seventeenth Century
2 Triumph and Trouble: The Effects of Knowledge Spoils
3 Enduring Instabilities: From Spoils of Knowledge to Swedish Spoils of War, Reconstructions and Restitutions
Bibliography
Illustrations
Index
