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Swedish Journal of Romanian StudiesThe article analyses the diplomatic relations between the Principality of Transylvania and France during the period 1541–1559, under the leadership of Queen Isabella Szapolya (Jagiellon).
Victor V. Vizauer
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History, EarlyView.Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
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On the origins of border effects: insights from the Habsburg Customs Union [PDF]
, 2007 This paper examines the emergence and dynamics of border effects over time. We exploit the unique historical setting of the multi-national Habsburg Empire prior to the Great War to explore the hypothesis that border effects emerged as a result of ...
Wolf, Nikolaus, Schulze, Max-Stephan
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
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CornovaThis article shows how the transfer of proofs of nobility by Maria Theresa of Austria in the 1750s led to complex movements between Vienna and the countries of the monarchy and produced social and cultural changes within the nobility.
Éric Hassler
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Peristil, 2022 In the compendium on the Vienna Ringstrasse, edited by Renate Wagner-Rieger, little mention is made of the sculptor Caspar Zumbusch and his Vienna School of Sculpture. The author outlines the emergence of the Viennese school of sculpture and the students
Caroline Mang
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
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The Empire is dead, long live the Empire! Long-run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy [PDF]
, 2011 Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens’ trust in local public services.
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History, EarlyView.Abstract On 2 June 1442, Alfonso V of Aragon seized the throne of Naples after twenty years of violence, rivalry and warfare between the houses of Anjou and Trastámara over control of the Italian Regno. Over the span of his sixteen‐year reign, Alfonso used Naples as a tool to build his reputation as a new Roman and Imperial ruler in the Italian south ...
Jessica L. Minieri
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Brünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik, 2017 The life and historic achievements of Rudolf of Habsburg, the founder of the Habsburg rule in Austria, were very often analyzed, especially in Austrian literature. Franz Grillparzer analyzed the rise of the Habsburgs in his "König Ottokars Glück und Ende"
Miroslav Urbanec
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