Download or read book The Quest for Compromise written by Howard Louthan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 individuals: 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.