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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 Napl…
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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
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- Publication Date:1991.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):E.J. Brill
- Place of Publication:Leiden
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1991.
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- Description:1 online resource (xv, 339 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9004093109, 9789004093102, 9789004246706, 9004246703
- oclc:on1029060832
- LC Classification:DL719
- Dewey Decimal:B
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