num_pages: 208
description: The Quest for Compromise is an interdisciplinary study of an imperial court in late-sixteenth-century Vienna, and a detailed examination of a fascinating moment of religious moderation. It investigates the rise and fall of an irenic movement through four an Italian artist (Jacopo Strada), a Silesian physician (Johannis Crato), a Dutch librarian (Hugo Blotius) and a German soldier (Lazarus von Schwendi), who sought peace and accommodation through a wide range of cultural, intellectual and political activity.
language: English
title: The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna
titlecomplete: The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History)
ratings_count: 3
series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
publisher: Cambridge University Press