Queen Christina of Sweden and her circle : the transformation of a seventeenth-century philosophical libertine /
Åkerman, Susanna, 1959-
Queen Christina of Sweden and her circle : the transformation of a seventeenth-century philosophical libertine / by Susanna Åkerman. - 1 online resource (xv, 339 pages) : illustrations. - Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 21 0920-8607 ; . - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 21. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Online, ISBN: 9789004253339. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [320]-331) and index.
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 / Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman.
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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.
9789004246706
10.1163/9789004246706 DOI
90042996
Christina, Queen of Sweden, 1626-1689.
Queens--Sweden--Biography.
Philosophy, Modern--17th century.
DL719 / .A44 1991
948.5/02/092 B
Queen Christina of Sweden and her circle : the transformation of a seventeenth-century philosophical libertine / by Susanna Åkerman. - 1 online resource (xv, 339 pages) : illustrations. - Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 21 0920-8607 ; . - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 21. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Online, ISBN: 9789004253339. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [320]-331) and index.
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 / Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman -- Susanna Akerman.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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.
9789004246706
10.1163/9789004246706 DOI
90042996
Christina, Queen of Sweden, 1626-1689.
Queens--Sweden--Biography.
Philosophy, Modern--17th century.
DL719 / .A44 1991
948.5/02/092 B