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The quest for compromise : peacemakers in counter-Reformation Vienna / Howard Louthan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in early modern historyPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 185 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585039720
  • 9780585039725
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Quest for compromise.DDC classification:
  • 943/.033 21
LOC classification:
  • DB65.4 .L68 1997eb
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. I. The 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. The Failure of Irenicism. 7. Confessional ambiguity and unambiguous critics: religion and the Austrian middle way. 8. The funeral of Maximilian II: struggling for the soul of central Europe.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-179) and index.

Print version record.

pt. I. The 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. The Failure of Irenicism. 7. Confessional ambiguity and unambiguous critics: religion and the Austrian middle way. 8. The funeral of Maximilian II: struggling for the soul of central Europe.

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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