The Quest for Compromise
Howard Louthan
Broschiertes Buch

The Quest for Compromise

Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna

Herausgeber: Elliott, John; Hufton, Olwen
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An account of religious moderation at the Habsburg court in late sixteenth-century 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) 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 impe...