Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Emma Hagström Molin -- Copyright page / Emma Hagström Molin -- Dedication / Emma Hagström Molin -- Preface / Emma Hagström Molin -- Acknowledgements / Emma Hagström Molin -- Figures / Emma Hagström Molin -- Abbreviations / Emma Hagström Molin -- Introduction: In the King’s Treasury / Emma Hagström Molin -- Chapter 1 Placed in Chests: The Making of Cultural Spoils in Seventeenth-Century Europe and Beyond / Emma Hagström Molin -- Chapter 2 Archive Trouble: The Mitau Files in Vasa History / Emma Hagström Molin -- Chapter 3 Library Confessions: Catholic Books, Jesuit Epistemology and Temporality at Uppsala University Library / Emma Hagström Molin -- Chapter 4 War Museums: Spolia Selecta in Carl Gustaf Wrangel’s Skokloster / Emma Hagström Molin -- Conclusion: Spoils of Knowledge, Triumph and Trouble / Emma Hagström Molin -- Bibliography / Emma Hagström Molin -- Illustrations / Emma Hagström Molin -- Index / Emma Hagström Molin.

In Spoils of Knowledge , Emma Hagström Molin offers novel perspectives on document and book plundering. At the forefront 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 400 years, she shows that the understanding of spoils changed significantly over time.

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