Name: Queen Christina of Sweden and her Circle. The Transformation of a Seventeenth-Century Philosophical Libertine
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Author: Susanna Åkerman
ISBN: 9789004093102

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Queen Christina of Sweden and her Circle. The Transformation of a Seventeenth-Century Philosophical Libertine

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Brill

Author

Susanna Åkerman

Collection

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

Year

1991

Language

English

Pages

358

Dimensions

23.50 x 15.50 cm

ISBN13

9789004093102

Queen Christina of Sweden and her Circle. The Transformation of a Seventeenth-Century Philosophical Libertine

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Synopsis "Queen Christina of Sweden and her Circle. The Transformation of a Seventeenth-Century Philosophical Libertine"

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.