Queen Christina of Sweden and her Circle : the transformation of a seventeenth-century philosophical libertine
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Queen Christina of Sweden and her Circle : the transformation of a seventeenth-century philosophical libertine
（Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 21）
E.J. Brill, 1991
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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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