Knowledge and rebirth: some considerations on Johann Valentin Andreae’s “Christianopolis” Cover Image

Cunoastere si renastere: unele consideraţii asupra scrierii „Christianopolis” de Johann Valentin Andreae
Knowledge and rebirth: some considerations on Johann Valentin Andreae’s “Christianopolis”

Author(s): Rodica Teodora Biriş, Bogdan Deznan
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: utopia; Johann Valentin Andreae; knowledge; curiosity; Sacred Wedding; utopie; Johann Valentin Andreae; cunoastere; curiozitate; Nunta sacră

Summary/Abstract: Utopian writings in the seventeenth century were very often a curious combination between literary fantasy and their authors’ design for an ideal social, scientific and religious order which they considered to be necessary and imminent. These fictional depictions were generally conceived as necessary complements to a more ample and consistent program for a religious, scientific and social reform. In the following study we attempt to demonstrate just to what extent these preliminary considerations apply to one of Johann Valentin Andreae’s best known works, Christianopolis.

  • Issue Year: VII/2011
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 153-160
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English