Queen Christina of Sweden and Her Circle: The Transformation of a Seventeenth-Century Philosophical Libertine

QUEEN CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN AND HER CIRCLE
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	TABLE OF CONTENTS
	PREFACE
	ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
	PART I THE PROBLEM
		CHAPTER ONE THE PROBLEM OF CHRISTINA\'S ABDICATION
			Abdication:
			Conversion
	CHAPTER TWO DOUBTS AND IRRELIGIOUS SCEPTICISM
		A Problematic Catholicism
		On Reading Queen Christina—the \"e-Silentio Proofs
		Christina and Irreligious Scepticism
	CHAPTER THREE CHRISTINA AND DESCARTES: DISASSEMBLING A MYTH
		The Meeting
		The Correspondence
		Ernst Cassirer\'s Claims
		The Search after Truth
		The Two Characters
	PART II CHRISTINA\'S PHILOSOPHY
		CHAPTER FOUR GASSENDI,ATOMS AND THE WORLD SOUL OF EPICUREANS
			Leibniz\' view on Christina\'s doctrine of the World Soul
	CHAPTER FIVE HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY
		Friedrich Menius and Spiritual Atomism
		Georg Stiernhielm, Johannes Bureus, and the Gothic Kabbalah
	PART III THE SWEDISH-BALTIC BACKGROUND
		CHAPTER SIX CHRISTINA MINERVA AND THE ANCIENT MODEL OF LEARNING
			The Stockholm Academy
			Theological Linguistics: Taxonomy, Relativism, Nationalism
			Christina Alexandra, Linguistics, and the Goths
	CHAPTER SEVEN NEO-STOIC PAN-PROTESTANTS AND THE MONARCHY
		The Messenius Plot and Bengt Skytte
		Bengt Skytte, Comenius, and \"Sophopolis
		Negotiations for Church Unity and the Reform of Schools
		Heinrich Hein,the Baltic Antilia, and the Rosicrucians
	CHAPTER EIGHT THE HERMETIC ORDER OF THE AMARANTHE
		Comenius and the Bohemian War
	PART IV MILLENARIANISM AND POLITICS
		CHAPTER NINE THE ABDICATION: ALTERING THE SACRED DESTINY
			The Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in the Sign of the Lion
			Charles Gustavus and the Millenarian Hopes
			Theatrum Cometicum
	CHAPTER TEN CHRISTINA AND THE JEWS
		Hebraism
		Jewish Bankers
		Philo-Semitic Intervention
	CHAPTER ELEVEN THE MESSIANIC DRAMA: THE YEAR 1655
		Isaac La Peyrère, Antonio Vierra, Menasseh ben Israel
		Christina\'s Grand Plan in Flanders, 1655
	CHAPTER TWELVE CHRISTINA IN ROME—ANTIQUITY AND THE MILITANT CHURCH
		The Refutation of Scepticism in Christina\'s Academy, 1656
		The Paris Academy and the Crown of Naples
	CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE POLISH ELECTION—THE LAST WASA THRONE
		Christina in Hamburg
		Stanislaus Lubieniecki, Spy and Socinian
		The Argument for the Polish Throne, 1667
	CHAPTER FOURTEEN LEIBNIZ, MARANA, AND THE TURKISH MIRROR
		The Turkish Spy
	CHAPTER FIFTEEN THE ROMAN ACADEMIES: PROVIDENTIALISM AND SCIENCE
		Christina Alexandra as \"Basilissa\" of the Arcadia
		Certitude, Archeology, and Monumentalism
	PART V CONSEQUENCES OF WORLD SOUL PHILOSOPHY
		CHAPTER SIXTEEN ALCHEMY, THE WORLD SOUL, AND THE HERETICS OF ROME
			Counter-Reform Rosicrucians?—A Problem for the History of Rome
			Christina\'s Alchemical Manuscripts
	CHAPTER SEVENTEEN CHRISTINA AND MOLINOS\' QUIETISM
	FINALE AFTER IMAGES
		CHAPTER EIGHTEEN CHRISTINA ALEXANDRA: WOMAN, RULER, AND THE LOST DOMINION
	APPENDIX I CHRISTINA\'S WRITTEN COMPOSITIONS
	APPENDIX II THE LIBERTINE PAMPHLETS
	MANUSCRIPTS AND RARE SOURCES
	BIBLIOGRAPHY
	INDEX