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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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Susanna Akerman
- CHAPTER ONE: THE PROBLEM OF CHRISTINA'S ABDICATION / Susanna Akerman
- CHAPTER TWO: DOUBTS AND IRRELIGIOUS SCEPTICISM / Susanna Akerman
- CHAPTER THREE: CHRISTINA AND DESCARTES: DISASSEMBLING A MYTH / Susanna Akerman
- CHAPTER FOUR: GASSENDI, ATOMS AND THE WORLD SOUL OF EPICUREANS / Susanna Akerman
- CHAPTER FIVE: HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY / Susanna Akerman
- CHAPTER SIX: CHRISTINA MINERVA AND THE ANCIENT MODEL OF LEARNING / Susanna Akerman
- CHAPTER SEVEN: NEO-STOIC PAN-PROTESTANTS AND THE MONARCHY / Susanna Akerman
- CHAPTER EIGHT: THE HERMETIC ORDER OF THE AMARANTHE / Susanna Akerman
- CHAPTER NINE: THE ABDICATION: ALTERING THE SACRED DESTINY / Susanna Akerman
- CHAPTER TEN: CHRISTINA AND THE JEWS / Susanna Akerman
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE MESSIANIC DRAMA: THE YEAR 1655 / Susanna Akerman
- CHAPTER TWELVE: CHRISTINA IN ROME—ANTIQUITY AND THE MILITANT CHURCH / Susanna Akerman
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE POLISH ELECTION—THE LAST WASA THRONE / Susanna Akerman
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: LEIBNIZ, MARANA, AND THE TURKISH MIRROR / Susanna Akerman
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE ROMAN ACADEMIES: PROVIDENTIALISM AND SCIENCE / Susanna Akerman
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: ALCHEMY, THE WORLD SOUL, AND THE HERETICS OF ROME / Susanna Akerman
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: CHRISTINA AND MOLINOS' QUIETISM / Susanna Akerman
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: CHRISTINA ALEXANDRA: WOMAN, RULER, AND THE LOST DOMINION / Susanna Akerman
- APPENDIX I: CHRISTINA'S WRITTEN COMPOSITIONS / Susanna Akerman
- APPENDIX II: THE LIBERTINE PAMPHLETS / Susanna Akerman
- MANUSCRIPTS AND RARE SOURCES / Susanna Akerman
- BIBLIOGRAPHY / Susanna Akerman
- INDEX / Susanna Akerman.