Rudolf II and His World: A Study in Intellectual History, 15761612,Used

Rudolf II and His World: A Study in Intellectual History, 15761612,Used

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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 16thcentury Europe yet he remained a shadowy and fugitive figure. The decades around 1600 saw sweeping cultural changes in Europe, with the waning of an oldworld view and the beginnings of the 17thcentury 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 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 of Professor Evans argues that it was this failure which led to his eventual tragic downfall.

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