TY  - BOOK
AU  - Åkerman,Susanna
TI  - Queen Christina of Sweden and her circle: the transformation of a seventeenth-century philosophical libertine 
T2  - Brill's studies in intellectual history,
SN  - 9789004246706
AV  - DL719 .A44 1991
U1  - 948.5/02/092 20
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Leiden, New York
PB  - E.J. Brill
KW  - Christina,
KW  - Queens
KW  - Sweden
KW  - Biography
KW  - Philosophy, Modern
KW  - 17th century
N1  - 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; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004246706
ER  -