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"Los vivas eran oídos a lo lejos entre el estruendo de las bandas militares": The Promotion of Music during the Second Mexican Empire

open access: yesDiagonal: An Ibero-American Music Review, 2021
This article aims to analyze the cultural “structures and practices” that Mexico inherited from the Second Mexican Empire, particularly in the field of arts and music, trying to be a counterbalance to the black legend that weighs on this stage of our ...
Luis Díaz-Santana Garza
doaj   +1 more source

Seizing the Regno: Relics and the Politics of Aragonese Expansion in the Fifteenth‐Century Mediterranean

open access: yesHistory, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Die Rezeption des deutschen Fürstenbundes. Von Zeitgenossen bis Leopold von Ranke

open access: yesHistoria.scribere, 2014
The following paper examines how the history of the “German Fürstenbund” from 1785 was told by contemporary and late 19th century politicians and historians.
Nikolaus Bliem
doaj   +2 more sources

Language, Literature and Music in Slovenian Cultural and Political Aspirations before 1914

open access: yesDe Musica Disserenda, 2016
The article presents the interplay between cultural and political aspirations of Slovenians within the multinational Habsburg Empire before 1914. The case study of selfdefined images of Slovenians in literature and music outlines the relation between ...
Nataša Cigoj Krstulović
doaj   +1 more source

Rulers on the road: Itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Itinerant rule, rule exercised through traveling, was a common yet insufficiently researched, premodern form of governance. Studying the determinants of ruler itineraries in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519, we argue that rulers' visits targeted “marginal” elites.
Carl Müller‐Crepon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Declining female participation: Mechanisms at play in the Viennese private annuity market, c. 1360–1450

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract During the high and late Middle Ages, the European economy witnessed the emergence and substantial growth of capital markets, a phenomenon connected to urbanization and pestilence, both of which brought profound changes to the social, legal, and economic positions of women.
Anna Molnár
wiley   +1 more source

Croatia in the Economic Structure of the Habsburg Empire in the Light of the 1857 Census [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The census of 1857 was the first census in the Habsburg Empire where the occupations of those conscripted were asked. The paper examines the occupational structure of active population in Civil Croatia and in Croatian-Slavonian Military Frontier and ...
Nagy, Mariann
core   +1 more source

Pilgrimages of Emperor Leopold I in Central Europe

open access: yesRadovi Instituta za Povijest Umjetnosti, 2017
The paper analyses the role of pilgrimage sites in Bavaria, Austria, Bohemia, and Hungary in the representation of Emperor Leopold I. This subject illustrates the strong relations between the kingdoms and regions once constituting the Habsburg Empire ...
Szabolcs Serfőző
doaj   +1 more source

The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power. Flanked on four sides by rivals, it possessed few of the advantages that explain successful empires. Yet somehow Austria endured, outlasting Ottoman sieges, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon.
openaire   +1 more source

Hunting for Hollanders: The community responsibility system, trade sanctions, and public debt in the late‐medieval Low Countries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
wiley   +1 more source

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