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The history of the Habsburg Monarchy and Austria in the early modern period continues to capture the interest of many scholars. This collection of essays by twenty leading authorities from the United States, Austria, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands focuses on the int…
In the year 800, Pope Leo III placed the crown of imperial Rome on a Germanic king named Karl. Thus, the man later hailed as Charlemagne claimed his empire and forever shaped the destiny of Europe. Transporting readers far beyond Europe to the glittering palaces of Constantinopl…
This volume, which focuses on the relations between the two branches of the Habsburg dynasty in the modern era, examines the ways in which identity was constructed exploring the idea of a joint policy of the House of Austria in Europe. It also examines, through various case stud…
The development of political modernity in Europe entailed a process whereby formerly important political forms increasingly lost significance and were transformed in a long process that led to the separation of individuals from political power, in the distinctive shape of modern…
The Czechs in the early modern period found themselves situated between two political and cultural giants: the Holy Roman and the Ottoman Empires. As the Hapsburg emperors in Vienna consolidated their power over the Czech lands and the Ottoman sultans in Istanbul threatened them…
The prevailing scholarly consensus holds that national ideas are exclusively modern phenomena which had no role in a pre-modern age of dynastic monarchy. And yet, during the Wars of Louis XIV (1667-1714), French and German political pamphleteers regularly mobilized national rhet…
It is now taken for granted that the globe is divided into mutually exclusive territories, each of which belong to a particular community. To be a political community, it is thought, means to have sole possession of a piece of the Earth’s surface and to have complete authority o…
During the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48), the Habsburg family struggled to consolidate their power and exert control over the Holy Roman Empire. The Habsburgs used the Catholic faith as a method to centralize their public image and political power despite military defeats. Focusin…
The effectiveness and the sustainability of the Holy Roman Empire remained a subject of debate over the past two centuries. While nationalist historians derided the lack of centralized institutions, revisionist historians after the Second World War largely stressed the positive …
Although many historians consider Joseph II's campaign of 1788 against the Ottoman Turks a failure, no one has yet provided a thorough account of it. This study attempts to put something into the void. Based mostly on original sources found in the Kriegsarchiv (War Archives) in …
As Sigismund of Luxembourg rose from being the King of Hungary to Holy Roman Emperor, he was threatened constantly by a variety of political, military, and religious dangers. Sigismund was forced to deal with relentless waves of invasion by the bellicose Ottoman Empire, and his …
Two prevailing approaches in international relations neo-realism and constructivism emphasize the role of material capabilities or ideas in systemic change. Alternatively, this dissertation focuses on the change and persistence of domestic institutions of states that turn materi…
In fifteenth-century Bohemia religious and political needs intersected in a revolution that affected the Church, the Empire, and all of Europe. The religious reformation started by Jan Hus became a political revolution in 1419 when many Czech nobles decided to deny the Bohemian …
The first European revolution, c. 970 - 1215
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