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The Rise of Fiscal Capacity: Administration and State Consolidation in the Holy Roman Empire

Econometrica, Volume 92, Issue 5, Page 1439-1472, September 2024.
This paper studies the role of fiscal capacity in European state consolidation. Our analysis is organized around novel data on the territories and cities of the Holy Roman Empire in the early modern period. Territories implementing an early fiscal reform were more likely to survive, increased in size, and achieved a more compact extent.
Davide Cantoni, Cathrin Mohr, Matthias Weigand   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

To make a figure in the world: Identity and material literacy in the 1770s coach consumption of British ambassador, Lord Grantham

Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 386-407, July 2024.
Abstract Using archival research on the correspondence of diplomat Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham, this article examines how Grantham used his material knowledge of carriage design to negotiate the often‐conflicting pushes and pulls on elite office‐holding men's identities and material cultures.
Ben Jackson
wiley   +1 more source

Hledat a nalézat: Barokní Valdštejnové a jejich informační síť

Theatrum Historiae, 2012
This article deals with the information network linking the members of the House of Waldstein, a top aristocratic dynasty in the society of the early Modern Age.
Jiří Hrbek
doaj  

Nationalism and War in the 21st‐Century Europe

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 63, Issue S1, Page 20-35, November 2025.
Siniša Malešević
wiley   +1 more source

Daughter, mother, widow: The making of the identities of Isabella d'Aragona

Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 353-368, July 2024.
Abstract This article examines performances of identity (as daughter, mother and widow) by Isabella d'Aragona (1470–1524) in three of her letters. Isabella's construction of self, drew on her status as a dynast of the House of Aragon and aimed at securing her future and promote the interests of her children.
Darius von Güttner‐Sporzyński
wiley   +1 more source

Mariana de Austria: the ideal bride and saviour of the Habsburg Monarchy

, 2021
Mariana de Austria, queen of Spain, played a fundamental role in the last reign of the Habsburg dynasty in Spain, as the wife of Felipe IV and mother of Carlos II. On the other side, Ferdinand I is depicted, with the emperors Albrecht I and Friedrich III,
Rodriguez-Moya, Inmaculada
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Die Unterordnung der Zentralinstitutionen Siebenbürgens durch die Habsburger. Die Fürstliche Institution (1688–1791) [PDF]

Codrul Cosminului, 2016
The subordination of Transylvania’s central institutions to the Habsburgs. The princely institution (1688–1791). In 1688, after the military occupation of the Principality by Habsburg troops and the acceptance of the Habsburg kings’ suzerainty by the ...
Marinel Ovidiu Koch-Tufiş
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Homo- and bisexuality in the Habsburg dynasty during the 19th and 20th centuries

, 2019
Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Thematik der Homo- und Bisexualität im österreichischen Kaiserhaus des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Dabei wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob Homo- bzw. Bisexualität zu dieser Zeit ausgelebt werden konnten und wie
Prinz, Marlene
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Illustrating an Emperor

Central Europe, 2020
Completed in 1517, Theuerdank has been lauded by some analysts as the most important publication of the German Renaissance. A work of rhyming verse consisting of 118 brief chapters, the story details the trials of the titular knight, Theuerdank (a ...
Luke Dykowski
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Anglo-Habsburg Relations in the War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-14

, 2019
This thesis considers the relationship between the British polity and the Habsburg dynasty in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14). During this conflict, the government of Queen Anne (r.

core   +1 more source