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Author: Veronica Buckley Publisher: HarperCollins UK ISBN: 0007391153 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 534
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The groundbreaking biography of one of the most progressive, influential and entertaining women of the seventeenth century, Christina Alexandra, Queen of Sweden.
Author: Veronica Buckley Publisher: HarperCollins UK ISBN: 0007391153 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 534
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The groundbreaking biography of one of the most progressive, influential and entertaining women of the seventeenth century, Christina Alexandra, Queen of Sweden.
Author: Susanna Åkerman Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004246703 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 358
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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.
Author: Lawrence Nolan Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316380939 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 1642
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The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon is the definitive reference source on René Descartes, 'the father of modern philosophy' and arguably among the most important philosophers of all time. Examining the full range of Descartes' achievements and legacy, it includes 256 in-depth entries that explain key concepts relating to his thought. Cumulatively they uncover interpretative disputes, trace his influences, and explain how his work was received by critics and developed by followers. There are entries on topics such as certainty, cogito ergo sum, doubt, dualism, free will, God, geometry, happiness, human being, knowledge, Meditations on First Philosophy, mind, passion, physics, and virtue, which are written by the largest and most distinguished team of Cartesian scholars ever assembled for a collaborative research project - 92 contributors from ten countries.
Author: Georgina Masson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This is a biography of Kristina of Sweden who would have preferred to have been a man and in reality behaved like one, who loved power but had to abdicate the Swedish throne. Nevertheless she never ceased for a moment to be royal. The author recounts her life in 17th century Sweden and later in Rome. (Publisher).
Author: Marcia Landy Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1838717692 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 79
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Each volume in the 'BFI Film Classics' series features a brief production history, detailed filmography, notes and bibliography. This text explores MGM's 1933 production of 'Queen Christina', starring Greta Garbo, from a feminist perspective. The authors explore the role of Christina, who, fleeing an arranged marriage, is forced to disguise herself as a man. They read the film partly from a lesbian perspective, as well as looking at other ways in which gender and power impose contradictory pressures.
Author: Carolyn Meyer Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 9780439249768 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 184
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Carolyn Meyer, author of best-selling ROYAL DIARIES Isabel and Anastasia, now brings to the series this compelling story of Kristina, The Girl King, from 17th-century Sweden. Upon discovering that their newborn infant was, in fact, female and not male as first thought, Queen Marie Eleonore wailed inconsolably and King Gustavus Adolphus declared, nevertheless, that the child be raised as a prince. At age six, upon the death of her father, the child Kristina, was proclaimed King of Sweden, with regents assigned to council until she assumes the throne at age eighteen. And indeed, her life followed her father's plan. We meet Kristina when she's almost twelve years old and eschewing feminine practices but reveling in the study of military tactics,
Author: Veronica Buckley
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