Author : Veronica Buckley
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 16,44 MB
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0007391153
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
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 1991-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004246703
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 : Joanne Mattern
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Queens
ISBN : 1429623101
"Describes the life and death of Queen Christina Vasa of Sweden"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Georgina Masson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 1974
Category :
ISBN :
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 : Henry Woodhead
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 1863
Category : Sweden
ISBN :
Author : Lawrence Nolan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1642 pages
File Size : 27,74 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1316380939
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 : Carolyn Meyer
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,49 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780439249768
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 : Christina (Queen of Sweden)
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 1907
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Marcia Landy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 26,77 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1838717692
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 : Michel Marc Bouchard
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,73 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780889228986
The story of a modern woman born out of her time - one whom the seventeenth century simply couldn't contain.
