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...
| Main Author: | Louthan, Howard, 1963- |
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| Other Authors: | EBSCOhost. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xvi, 185 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Series: |
Cambridge studies in early modern history.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I.
- 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 court
- pt. II.
- Maximilian II and the High Point of Irenicism.
- 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
- pt. III.
- Failure of Irenicism.
- 7.
- Confessional ambiguity and unambiguous critics: religion and the Austrian middle way.
- 8.
- Funeral of Maximilian II: struggling for the soul of central Europe.