The quest for compromise peacemakers in counter-Reformation Vienna

The Quest for Compromise is an interdisciplinary study of the imperial court in late sixteenth-century Vienna, and a detailed examination of a fascinating moment of religious moderation. Against a backdrop of rising religious and confessional dogmatism, the Emperor Maximilian II (1564-1576) assemble...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Louthan, Howard, 1963- (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press 1997
Colección:Cambridge studies in early modern history
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Emergence of an Irenic Court: 1. From confrontation to conciliation: the conversion of Lazarus von Schwendi
  • 2. Jacopo Strada and the transformation of the imperial courtPart II. Maximillion II and the High Point of Irenicism: Introduction
  • 3. Hugo Blotius and the intellectual foundation of Austrian irenicism
  • 4. Ordering a chaotic world: the reformation of the imperial library
  • 5. Protestant ecumenism and Catholic reform: the case of Johannes Crato
  • 6. Finding a via media: Lazarus von Schwendi and the climax of Austrian irenicism
  • Part III. The Failure of Irenicism: Introduction
  • 7. Confessional ambiguity and unambiguous critics: religion and the Austrian middle way
  • 8. The funeral of Maximilian II: struggling for the soul of central Europe
  • 9. Matthias in The Netherlands: the political failure of irenicism
  • Conclusion: storm clouds on the horizon: from the great milk war to the thirty years warEpilogue: the wider circle of irenicism
  • Select bibliography
  • Index.