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Rudolf II and Prague

The Imperial Court and Residential City as the Cultural and Spiritual Heart Od Central Europe

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  • 392 stránok
  • 14 hodin čítania

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Rudolf II of Hapsburg, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia and Hungary, was an extraordinary ruler, a monarch whose court occupied a central position in 16th-century Europe - yet he remained a shadowy and fugitive figure. The decades around 1600 saw sweeping cultural changes in Europe, with the waning of an old-world view and the beginnings of the 17th-century intellectual revolution. The author argues that the conflict which played itself out in the Hapsburg lands during these years was a political manifestation of the intellectual confrontation between the old guard and their preoccupation with the mystical, spiritual and hermetic sciences, and the rise of a more rational and empirical view of the world. Rudolf, as the embodiment of the old philosophy, failed to grasp this profound shift in the prevailing climate, and this failure ultimately led to his tragic downfall.

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Rudolf II and Prague, Eliška Fučíková

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1997
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Titul
Rudolf II and Prague
Podtitul
The Imperial Court and Residential City as the Cultural and Spiritual Heart Od Central Europe
Jazyk
anglicky
Väzba
mäkká
Počet strán
392
ISBN10
0500279861
ISBN13
9780500279861
Série
Anotácia
Rudolf II of Hapsburg, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia and Hungary, was an extraordinary ruler, a monarch whose court occupied a central position in 16th-century Europe - yet he remained a shadowy and fugitive figure. The decades around 1600 saw sweeping cultural changes in Europe, with the waning of an old-world view and the beginnings of the 17th-century intellectual revolution. The author argues that the conflict which played itself out in the Hapsburg lands during these years was a political manifestation of the intellectual confrontation between the old guard and their preoccupation with the mystical, spiritual and hermetic sciences, and the rise of a more rational and empirical view of the world. Rudolf, as the embodiment of the old philosophy, failed to grasp this profound shift in the prevailing climate, and this failure ultimately led to his tragic downfall.