Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Printing in and for Scandinavia before the Reformation -- Scandinavian Book Trade and the European Context -- Book Collections and Collectors: Churches and Monasteries -- Book Collectors and Collections: Universities and Schools -- Book Collectors and Collections: Private Owners -- The Reception of Printed Works -- Conclusion: Transnationalism and a Model for Scandinavian Pre-Reformation Book History -- The Malmö List -- Books from the Principal Pre-Reformation Danish Religious Libraries -- The Lecturer’s Library in Slesvig -- The Inventory of a House Belonging to the Bishop of Odense, 1530–1532 -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Printed book cultures in Scandinavia before 1525 were formed by their vicinity to expanding European book markets. Collections of prints were founded, decisions on printing books in Scandinavia were based upon thorough knowledge of what printers on the continent achieved in question of volume, quality and price. Building on a large database of contemporary provenances and statistical analyses of every possible aspect of peripheral book markets, as well as on new readings of many old and new sources, this book recalibrates scholarly looks on Scandinavian book history before the Reformation. The result is a fresh portrait of a dynamic period in cultural history which places Scandinavia, though in the geographical periphery of Europe, in the middle of European printing.