The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna

by Howard Louthan and Howard P. Louthan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521027128
• ISBN13: 9780521027120
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"