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Queen Christina of Sweden and her circle : the transformation of a seventeenth-century philosophical libertine
- Title
- Queen Christina of Sweden and her circle : the transformation of a seventeenth-century philosophical libertine / by Susanna Åkerman.
- Author
- Åkerman, Susanna, 1959-
- Publication
- Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1991.
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- Description
- xv, 339 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 21
- Uniform Title
- Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 21.
- Subject
- Christina, Queen of Sweden, 1626-1689
- Christina, Queen of Sweden, 1626-1689
- Christine, (1626-1689; reine de Suède) > Religion
- 1600-1699
- Queens > Sweden > Biography
- Philosophy, Modern > 17th century
- Philosophy, Modern
- Queens
- Filosofie
- Geestesgeschiedenis
- Politieke filosofie
- Godsdienstfilosofie
- Philosophie > 17e siècle
- Sweden
- Sweden > Kings and rulers > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [320]-331) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9004093109
- 9789004093102
- LCCN
- 90042996
- OCLC
- ocm22111492
- 22111492
- SCSB-1922185
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library