Queen Christina of Sweden and her circle : : the transformation of a seventeenth-century philosophical libertine / / 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...
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| Superior document: | Brill's studies in intellectual history, volume 21 |
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| 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. |
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| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Preliminary Material / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t CHAPTER ONE: THE PROBLEM OF CHRISTINA'S ABDICATION / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t CHAPTER TWO: DOUBTS AND IRRELIGIOUS SCEPTICISM / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t CHAPTER THREE: CHRISTINA AND DESCARTES: DISASSEMBLING A MYTH / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t CHAPTER FOUR: GASSENDI, ATOMS AND THE WORLD SOUL OF EPICUREANS / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t CHAPTER FIVE: HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t CHAPTER SIX: CHRISTINA MINERVA AND THE ANCIENT MODEL OF LEARNING / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t CHAPTER SEVEN: NEO-STOIC PAN-PROTESTANTS AND THE MONARCHY / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t CHAPTER EIGHT: THE HERMETIC ORDER OF THE AMARANTHE / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t CHAPTER NINE: THE ABDICATION: ALTERING THE SACRED DESTINY / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t CHAPTER TEN: CHRISTINA AND THE JEWS / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE MESSIANIC DRAMA: THE YEAR 1655 / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t CHAPTER TWELVE: CHRISTINA IN ROME—ANTIQUITY AND THE MILITANT CHURCH / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE POLISH ELECTION—THE LAST WASA THRONE / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t CHAPTER FOURTEEN: LEIBNIZ, MARANA, AND THE TURKISH MIRROR / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE ROMAN ACADEMIES: PROVIDENTIALISM AND SCIENCE / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t CHAPTER SIXTEEN: ALCHEMY, THE WORLD SOUL, AND THE HERETICS OF ROME / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: CHRISTINA AND MOLINOS' QUIETISM / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: CHRISTINA ALEXANDRA: WOMAN, RULER, AND THE LOST DOMINION / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t APPENDIX I: CHRISTINA'S WRITTEN COMPOSITIONS / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t APPENDIX II: THE LIBERTINE PAMPHLETS / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t MANUSCRIPTS AND RARE SOURCES / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t BIBLIOGRAPHY / |r Susanna Akerman -- |t INDEX / |r Susanna Akerman. |
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