Queen Christina of Sweden and her circle : : the transformation of a seventeenth-century philosophical libertine / / by Susanna Åkerman.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, volume 21
• VerfasserIn: Åkerman, Susanna, 1959-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1991.
• Year of Publication: 1991
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 21.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (358 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; CHAPTER ONE: THE PROBLEM OF CHRISTINA'S ABDICATION /; CHAPTER TWO: DOUBTS AND IRRELIGIOUS SCEPTICISM /; CHAPTER THREE: CHRISTINA AND DESCARTES: DISASSEMBLING A MYTH /; CHAPTER FOUR: GASSENDI, ATOMS AND THE WORLD SOUL OF EPICUREANS /; CHAPTER FIVE: HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY /; CHAPTER SIX: CHRISTINA MINERVA AND THE ANCIENT MODEL OF LEARNING /; CHAPTER SEVEN: NEO-STOIC PAN-PROTESTANTS AND THE MONARCHY /; CHAPTER EIGHT: THE HERMETIC ORDER OF THE AMARANTHE /; CHAPTER NINE: THE ABDICATION: ALTERING THE SACRED DESTINY /; CHAPTER TEN: CHRISTINA AND THE JEWS /; CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE MESSIANIC DRAMA: THE YEAR 1655 /; CHAPTER TWELVE: CHRISTINA IN ROME—ANTIQUITY AND THE MILITANT CHURCH /; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE POLISH ELECTION—THE LAST WASA THRONE /; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: LEIBNIZ, MARANA, AND THE TURKISH MIRROR /; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE ROMAN ACADEMIES: PROVIDENTIALISM AND SCIENCE /; CHAPTER SIXTEEN: ALCHEMY, THE WORLD SOUL, AND THE HERETICS OF ROME /; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: CHRISTINA AND MOLINOS' QUIETISM /; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: CHRISTINA ALEXANDRA: WOMAN, RULER, AND THE LOST DOMINION /; APPENDIX I: CHRISTINA'S WRITTEN COMPOSITIONS /; APPENDIX II: THE LIBERTINE PAMPHLETS /; MANUSCRIPTS AND RARE SOURCES /; BIBLIOGRAPHY /; INDEX /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004246703
• ISSN: 0920-8607
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Susanna Åkerman.

The life and works of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) have often been obscured behind a haze of Iurid myths and legends. This book looks again at her notorious abdication of 1654, seeing it against the background of her reputation as a "libertine", a heterodox religious thinker. Her subsequent conversion to Catholicism is therefore understood as a consequence of messianic and millenarian expectations during those turbulent years, and her bizarre attempt in 1657 to become the ruler of Naples is revealed to be the political wing of a comprehensive religious and intellectual philosophy.