Queen Christina of Sweden and her circle : the transformation of a seventeenth-century philosophical libertine / by Susanna Åkerman.
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TextSeries: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 21. | Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Online, ISBN: 9789004253339Publisher: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1991Description: 1 online resource (xv, 339 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9789004246706
- 948.5/02/092 20
- B 20
- DL719 .A44 1991
Includes bibliographical references (p. [320]-331) and index.
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.
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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.
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