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Mar 17, 2022 · 10 min read. ·. Mar 17, 2022. What, if any, role did women play in Habsburg dynasty-building before 1700? The Habsburgs are regarded as the “foremost family of Europe, and the paradigmatic...
It portrayed Elisabeth bringing a physical manifestation of death with her to the imperial court, thus destroying the Habsburg dynasty. The leading role in the premiere was played by Dutch musical singer Pia Douwes.
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Habsburg dynasty through three regents: Margaret of Austria (1480–1530), Mary of Hungary (1505–58) and Juana of Austria (1535–73). I examine their regencies in the context of their dynastic roles as women, who were destined at the time of their births to become queens, but who eventually became regents for a ruler other than their husband.
Apr 19, 2019 · What happened to the imperial household after 1918? And what is its legacy? These are the big questions that Rupture and Continuity , an exhibition organised at the Imperial Furniture Collection in Vienna aims to answer.
Maria Theresa turned sex into a public concern. In previous centuries, for example in the time of Emperor Ferdinand II (1619 – 1637), ‘wanton females’ had been persecuted. Prostitution was punished with fines, whipping and public pillorying in the ‘ Narrenkötterl ’ (‘Fools’ Cage’).
Dec 21, 2020 · The Habsburgs were the first European rulers to found an empire upon which the sun never set or, as was said at the time, where the mass was in continuous celebration. Philip and Juana’s son, Charles V, who became Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, was the first “world monarch”, whose dominions extended across four continents.
In doing so, marriage diplomacy emerges as a protracted, volatile, and gendered process where both failure and success encouraged network cohesion and perpetuated Habsburg dominance over the European dynastic system.
