The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History) by Howard Louthan - 1997-10-13

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UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Hardcover. Like New. Never read! Clean & tight pages. No writing or marks. Very slight shelf wear on dustjacket. Review """"Louthan's concise treatment is not restrictive: he examines complicated issues with finely balanced judgment that precludes sermonizing while suggesting that wisdom must prefer honorable compromise to bloody polarization. Excellent control of bot

-Cambridge University Press, 1997-. Studies in Early Modern History series. First edition. xvi+185 pages with index. Illustrated. Cloth, see-through of binding glue front paste-down. Fine in dustjacket. 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… Read More

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