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2006 Silvermasken
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In this concentrated biography of Queen Kristina (1626-1689) we are transported directly into a 17th century world of power struggles and piety, burgeoning scientific knowledge and naked violence; the brutal world of the Thirty Years’ War, but also the world of Descartes, Molière and Stiernhielm. A world where it was generally accepted that it was a misfortune to be born a woman. A world that Kristina challenged by the very fact of her existence. Peter Englund paints a concentrated and lively portrait of an amazingly modern individual, full of contradictions and unresolved conflicts. Kristina emerges as an unusually lively, curious and intelligent person who suffers from being constrained both by her role as a woman and by the intolerant world of faith of her times. We meet a ruthless individualist, prepared to risk everything – country and realm, religion and love, the peace of all Europe – for the sake of her own personal freedom.
Rights sold to: Czechnia, Lidove Noviny Estonia, Argo Finland, WSOY Norway, Spartacus Poland, Finna |
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