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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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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Quest for Compromise
• Subtitle: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna
• Author: Howard Louthan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9780521027120
• ISBN: 0521027128
• ID: 02018698
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 328 g
• Dimensions: 226 × 150 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. June 2006

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