Queen Christina of Sweden and her Circle

The Transformation of a Seventeenth-Century Philosophical Libertine
Erscheinungsjahr 1991
ISBN: 978-90-04-09310-2
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 699 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Åkerman, Susanna

Über Autor(innen)

Susanna Kristina Åkerman (b. Stockholm 1959), Ph.D. (1988) in Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis after studies at the Universities of Stockholm (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) and Köln. She is presently a Research Assistant at Uppsala University, working on a project Swedish-Baltic Immaterialism 1622-1688.