Main entry:

Åkerman, Susanna, 1959-

Title & Author:

Queen Christina of Sweden and her circle : the transformation of a seventeenth-century philosophical libertine / by Susanna Åkerman.

Publication:

Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1991.

Description:

xv, 339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 21

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.

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.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9004093109
9789004093102

Subject:

Christina, Queen of Sweden, 1626-1689.
Kristina, Queen of Sweden, 1626-1689.
Christine, reine de Suède, 1626-1689.
Christine, (1626-1689; reine de Suède) Religion.
Queens Sweden Biography.
Philosophy, Modern 17th century.
Philosophie 17e siècle.
Rois et souverains Suède Biographies.
Reines Suède Biographies.
Philosophy, Modern.
Queens.
Filosofie.
Geestesgeschiedenis.
Politieke filosofie.
Godsdienstfilosofie.
Sweden.
Sweden Kings and rulers Biography.
Christina, Queen of Sweden
Queens Biography Sweden

Form/genre:

Biographies.

Added entries:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 21.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 76298
Call No.: ID:92-B502
Status: Available