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Queen Christina of Sweden and her Circle: The Transformation of a Seventeenth-Century Philosophical Libertine
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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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“The study of languages, scripts and symbols was a thriving field which appeared to provide new perspectives on the histories of nations, and this pursuit-like antiquarian studies at the time in general-was not without mystical and esoteric dimensions (e.g. ˚ Akerman 1991, 110-12; Håkansson 2014, 307-62; Stolzenberg 2013, 19-23; see also Nagel 2011; Wood 2008).”
From Alternative Pasts and Colonial Engagements in the North: The Materiality and Meanings of the Pajala ‘Runestone’ (Vinsavaara Stone), Northern Sweden (2018) · cites this paper as Åkerman 1991, 110-12
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Herva, V.-P., Ikäheimo, J., Enbuske, M., & Okkonen, J. (2018) · Cambridge Archaeological Journal · doi:10.1017/s0959774318000197 · Cited by 5
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- Authors
- Åkerman, S.
- Corresponding author
- Åkerman, Susanna
- Venue
- BRILL eBooks
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Published
- 1991-07-01
- OpenAlex
- W131983296
- Cited by
- 101
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 3
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- 25.37
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- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- BRILL eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Early Modern Women Writers
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
- Keywords
- Queen Christina of Sweden, libertinism, Catholic conversion, messianism, millenarianism, Swedish courts
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