How the secularization of religious houses transformed the libraries of Europe, 16th-19th centuries
The closure of religious houses, in varying circumstances, affected all of Europe at some point between the sixteenth and nineteenth centries.
What impact did this historic change have on libraries and on the preservation or loss of books from the past --- the intellectual heritage of Europe?
Speakers from 14 countries in Europe and North America.
Themes: the map of dissolved collections – migration of books, and access to new publics – the emergence of private collections – bringing monastic collections into national libraries
Programme
Thursday 22 March, 9.00-17.30
- Session 1: The territorial and temporal map of the dissolved collections (CHAIR: Richard Ovenden, Bodleian Library, Oxford)
- Fiorenzo Landi, Prof. of Economic History, Università di Bologna – The dissolution of monasteries in Europe – an overall look and the economic implications
- Richard Sharpe, Prof. of Diplomatic, University of Oxford – The consequences of an early dissolution: the English experience in the sixteenth century and after
- Rudolf Gamper, Librarian, Kantonsbibliothek Vadiana, St. Gallen – From Reformation to Säkularisation: the dissolution of religious houses in Switzerland and the fate of their libraries
- Martin Germann, Zürich – Zurich and the Books of the Monasteries: from the Reformation to the 19th Century
- María Luisa López-Vidriero Abelló, Librarian, Biblioteca del Palacio Real, Madrid – Dissolved monastic collections in Spain from Philip II’s suppression to the 19th-century Desamortización
- Tuomas Heikkilä, Ass. Prof. of History, University of Helsinki, Finland – The Scandinavian situation, including the effect of the Thirty Years’ War in Germany
- Jeffrey Garrett, Ass. Librarian for Special Libraries, Northwestern University – The expropriation of monastic libraries in Central Europe, 1773–1814
- Session 2 : State policy toward book collections (CHAIR: Ian Maclean, University of Oxford)
- Dorit Raines, Dep. Studi Umanistici, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice – From predator to prey: The Venetian librarian Jacopo Morelli under Venetian, French, and Austrian governments
- Vincenzo Trombetta, Prof. of the History of the Book, Università di Salerno – La politica delle soppressioni e i nuovi poli bibliotecari a Napoli tra regalismo illuminista e Restaurazione, 1767-1815
Friday 23 March, 9.00-18.30
- Session 2: State policy toward book collections (2)
- Luís Cabral, Librarian, Câmara Municipal do Porto – State policy concerning the dissolution of monastic book collections in Portugal, esp. during the 19th century
- Marie Pierre Laffitte, Dep. MSS, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris – Napoleon and the sequestration of Italian monastic book collections
- Session 3: Sequestration, redistribution, or contribution to the foundation of public libraries (CHAIR: Kristian Jensen, British Library)
- Jos A. A. M. Biemans, Prof. of Palaeography and Codicology, University of Amsterdam – The 1578 foundation of the City Library of Amsterdam related to the history of other 16th-century Dutch libraries: the selection of manuscripts and printed books from monastic libraries
- Emmanuelle Chapron, Maître de conferences, Histoire moderne, Université Aix-en-Provence – Libraries and dissolved monastic collections in Tuscany from Pietro Leopoldo to Napoleon
- Marina Venier, Dep. Rare Books, Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Roma – Andreina Rita, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City – La dispersione delle biblioteche degli ordini religiosi a Roma, dalla prima Repubblica romana (1799) a Roma capitale del Regno d’Italia (1873)
- Marek Derwich, Prof. of History, Wrocław University – Oleh Duch, Faculty of History, University of Lviv (Ukraina) – The dissolution of monasteries in Silesia and Poland (with contemporaries Belorusse, Lithuanie and Ukraine) and the fate of their libraries, 18th-9th centuries
- Session 4: Migration of books, access to new publics (CHAIR: Kasper van Ommen, Leiden University)
- Antonella Barzazi, Dep. Storia, Università di Padova – Migration and re-use in the development of Italian religious collections (late 16th – 18th century)
- Bart op de Beeck, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels – Jesuit libraries in the Southern Netherlands, their eighteenth-century holdings, and the dispersion after 1773
- Javier Anton Pelayo, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona – The secularization of books and the change in the habit of reading in Catalonia during 18th and 19th centuries
- Bettina Wagner, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich – 1803 secularization in Bavaria and the book auctions of 1815–50
Saturday 24 March, 9.00-16.00
- Session 5: Impact on book trade and the emergence of private collections
(CHAIR: Giles Mandelbrote, Librarian, Lambeth Palace)- Dominique Varry, ENSSIB, Lyon, – French book trade after the Revolution
- Marino Zorzi, Istituto Veneto di lettere, scienze ed arti, Venice – The 19th-century book trade in Venice
- Richard Linenthal, Antiquarian bookseller, London – Monastic Collections and the 19th-Century English Book Trade
- William Stoneman, Florence Fearrington Librarian of Houghton Library, Harvard University – North American collection building: gathering monastic books from long ago and far away
- 11.30-12.30 Visit to College Libraries Or Tools for Research: Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (MLGB3), Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI), Index Possessorum Incunabulorum (IPI), CERL Thesaurus (CT); Ricerca sull'Inchiesta della Congregazione dell'Indice dei libri proibiti (RICI).
- Conclusions, 15.00-16.00
(CHAIR: Nigel Palmer, University of Oxford)
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Full Price : £60
Students only: £45
Lieu :
St Anne's College, Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom (voir la carte Google Maps)
Date(s) de l'évènement :
22 Mars, 2012 (Toute la journée) - 24 Mars, 2012 (Toute la journée)
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