TY - BOOK ID - 1536565 TI - Queen Christina of Sweden and her circle : the transformation of a seventeenth-century philosophical libertine PY - 1991 VL - 21 SN - 9004093109 9004246703 9789004093102 PB - Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Christina [Queen of Sweden] KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Philosophie KW - Christina, KW - Sweden KW - Suède KW - Kings and rulers KW - Biography KW - Rois et souverains KW - Biographie KW - Queens KW - Biography. KW - 948.5 KW - 929 KRISTINA, QUEEN OF SWEDEN, 1626-1689 KW - -Queens KW - -Royalty KW - Rulers KW - Sovereigns KW - Monarchy KW - Women KW - Courts and courtiers KW - Empresses KW - Modern philosophy KW - Geschiedenis van Zweden KW - Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--KRISTINA, QUEEN OF SWEDEN, 1626-1689 KW - Kristina Queen of Sweden KW - -Geschiedenis van Zweden KW - 929 KRISTINA, QUEEN OF SWEDEN, 1626-1689 Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--KRISTINA, QUEEN OF SWEDEN, 1626-1689 KW - 948.5 Geschiedenis van Zweden KW - -948.5 Geschiedenis van Zweden KW - Royalty KW - Suède KW - Kristina, KW - Christine, KW - Cristina, KW - Christina Alessandra, KW - Christina Augusta, KW - Kristiina, KW - Christina Alexandra, KW - Philosophy [Modern ] KW - 17th century KW - Kristina, - Queen of Sweden, - 1626-1689. KW - Queens - Sweden - Biography. KW - Philosophy, Modern - 17th century. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1536565 AB - 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. ER -