The historiography for a long time has been focused on the issues of the presence of religious people in the royal courts and, more generally, on the intertwining of politics and religion which was still persistent in the modern age. The contribution presented here sheds light on the role of confessors of Maria Carolina, and in particular of Monsignor Anton Bernhard Gürther, who was her spiritual director for over twenty years. Charged with the organisation of religious ceremony for the Queen and in charge of different aspects of the Kingdom’s ecclesiastical policy, Gürther was also responsible for the plans for reform of university studies and reorganization of the libraries of the Bourbon Government. Collector of antiquities, he was then above all a careful operator of cultural mediation, within a network of practices and extensive relationships in Jansenists and Masonic circles between Italy and Austria.
Il confessore della Regina
Novi Chavarria E
2016-01-01
Abstract
The historiography for a long time has been focused on the issues of the presence of religious people in the royal courts and, more generally, on the intertwining of politics and religion which was still persistent in the modern age. The contribution presented here sheds light on the role of confessors of Maria Carolina, and in particular of Monsignor Anton Bernhard Gürther, who was her spiritual director for over twenty years. Charged with the organisation of religious ceremony for the Queen and in charge of different aspects of the Kingdom’s ecclesiastical policy, Gürther was also responsible for the plans for reform of university studies and reorganization of the libraries of the Bourbon Government. Collector of antiquities, he was then above all a careful operator of cultural mediation, within a network of practices and extensive relationships in Jansenists and Masonic circles between Italy and Austria.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.