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Title:

THE QUEST FOR COMPROMISE
PEACEMAKERS IN COUNTER-REFORMATION VIENNA

By:

Howard Louthan

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

052158082X

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9780521580823

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

2 October, 1997

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History

Pages:

208

Description:

An account of religious moderation at the Habsburg court in late sixteenth-century Vienna.

Synopsis:

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) assembled a remarkable cast of courtiers who resisted extremes of both Reformation and Counter-Reformation. This book investigates the rise and fall of an irenic movement through four individuals whose work at the imperial court reflected the ideals of religious compromise and moderation. An Italian artist (Jacopo Strada), a Silesian physician (Johannes Crato), a Dutch librarian (Hugo Blotius) and a German soldier (Lazarus von Schwendi) sought peace and accommodation through a wide range of cultural, intellectual and political activity.

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14 b/w illus.

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Cambridge University Press

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