Book Contacts Between the '(Magnus) Ducatus' of Finland and Continental Europe in the First Centuries of the Printed Book (Fifteenth-Seventeenth centuries)

Abstract

This article will examine book contacts between the '(Magnus) Ducatus' of Finland, then part of the Kingdom of Sweden, and Continental Europe, mainly the HRE, between the middle of the fifteenth century and the middle of the seventeenth century. In this period, Sweden went from being a member of a Scandinavian union dominated by Denmark to becoming a major political player in Europe