The Transformation of a Seventeenth-Century Philosophical Libertine
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/07/1991
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.
- ISBN:
- 9789004093102
- 9789004093102
- Category:
- Biography: royalty
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 01-07-1991
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Brill
- Country of origin:
- Netherlands
- Dimensions (mm):
- 235x155mm
- Weight:
- 0.7kg
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