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Queen Christina of Sweden and her circle : the transformation of a seventeenth-century philosophical libertine
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ISBN: 9004093109 9004246703 9789004093102 Year: 1991 Volume: 21 Publisher: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill,

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Abstract

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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