The Habsburgs / McGuigan, Dorothy Gies 

Public ISBD Titre : The Habsburgs Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : McGuigan, Dorothy Gies, Auteur Editeur : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Company, Inc Année de publication : ©1966. Importance : xiv, 462 p. Présentation : ill. and photos Format : 24 cm Note générale : Includes index Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Germany -- History -- Hapsburg House. Habsburg, House of. Mots-clés : Habsburg Résumé : Personal lives of a royal family that made history for six centuries Note de contenu : I. Habsburg ancestor -- II. Habsburgs in the marriage market: Maximilian I -- The wedding in Burgundy -- The dowry -- Troubles and glory -- Brides lost and won -- Kaiser Max: His image -- The Spanish marriage: Philip the handsome and Juana the mad -- The children of Malines -- Durer's last portrait -- III. The one world of Charles V -- Heir to the world -- Family matters -- A momentous election -- The seamless coat -- Years of triumph -- The padlocked heart -- The seamless coat torn -- Brothers' quarrel -- Exile -- IV. Austrian and Spanish cousins -- Ferdinand's family -- The Turkish Scimitar -- heresy in the family circle -- Archduke Ferdinand and Philippina Welser -- Young Maximilian gives in -- Last days of Ferdinand -- A Spanish education -- Maximilian II, a Via Media -- A question of breeding -- The court of Rudolf II -- Matthias: Monarch of the Seven M's -- V. Habsburgs at bay: Protestant and Turk -- Ferdinand II -- A wartime bride -- Leopold I: An unwilling emperor -- The great siege of Vienna -- VI. In a Baroque world -- VII. Problems of inheritance -- A new king for Spain -- Problems and pleasure of Charles VI -- VIII. The great empress -- A new queen -- The Landesmutter -- Maria Theresia's chastity commission -- Absolutism in the nursery -- Last letter to the queen of France -- IX. Joseph II: The poor man's emperor -- Tastes of a simple man -- Changing the world -- Making of a throne heir -- Epitaph for Joseph -- X. Wars and waltzes: Napoleonic times -- The short reign of Leopold II -- Franz II vs. Napoleon -- Domestic life in wartime -- Family reunion -- XI. Kings on holiday: The dancing congress -- Opening of the congress -- Hofburg house party -- Disagreements and duels -- End of the dance -- XII. Mr. Biedermeier and his times -- Franz the Good, Ferdinand the good-natured -- Biedermeier romances -- Revolution and abdication -- XIII. Franz Josef: A long reign begins -- Young Franz Josef -- Empress Elizabeth -- Learning to rule -- Kaiserstadt -- Maximilian in Mexico -- Family life in the seventies -- XIV. The tragedy at Mayerlling -- A new throne heir: Rudolf -- Mary Vetsera -- Conspiracy of silence -- XV. Hofburg finale -- Elizabeth in mourning -- A friend for Franz Josef -- Uncle and nephew -- Turn-of-the-century Vienna -- Twilight -- Sarajevo -- Death of an emperor -- XVI. Curtain fall for the Habsburgs. The Habsburgs [texte imprimé] / McGuigan, Dorothy Gies, Auteur . - Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Company, Inc, ©1966. . - xiv, 462 p. : ill. and photos ; 24 cm. Includes index Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Germany -- History -- Hapsburg House. Habsburg, House of. Mots-clés : Habsburg Résumé : Personal lives of a royal family that made history for six centuries Note de contenu : I. Habsburg ancestor -- II. Habsburgs in the marriage market: Maximilian I -- The wedding in Burgundy -- The dowry -- Troubles and glory -- Brides lost and won -- Kaiser Max: His image -- The Spanish marriage: Philip the handsome and Juana the mad -- The children of Malines -- Durer's last portrait -- III. The one world of Charles V -- Heir to the world -- Family matters -- A momentous election -- The seamless coat -- Years of triumph -- The padlocked heart -- The seamless coat torn -- Brothers' quarrel -- Exile -- IV. Austrian and Spanish cousins -- Ferdinand's family -- The Turkish Scimitar -- heresy in the family circle -- Archduke Ferdinand and Philippina Welser -- Young Maximilian gives in -- Last days of Ferdinand -- A Spanish education -- Maximilian II, a Via Media -- A question of breeding -- The court of Rudolf II -- Matthias: Monarch of the Seven M's -- V. Habsburgs at bay: Protestant and Turk -- Ferdinand II -- A wartime bride -- Leopold I: An unwilling emperor -- The great siege of Vienna -- VI. In a Baroque world -- VII. Problems of inheritance -- A new king for Spain -- Problems and pleasure of Charles VI -- VIII. The great empress -- A new queen -- The Landesmutter -- Maria Theresia's chastity commission -- Absolutism in the nursery -- Last letter to the queen of France -- IX. Joseph II: The poor man's emperor -- Tastes of a simple man -- Changing the world -- Making of a throne heir -- Epitaph for Joseph -- X. Wars and waltzes: Napoleonic times -- The short reign of Leopold II -- Franz II vs. Napoleon -- Domestic life in wartime -- Family reunion -- XI. Kings on holiday: The dancing congress -- Opening of the congress -- Hofburg house party -- Disagreements and duels -- End of the dance -- XII. Mr. Biedermeier and his times -- Franz the Good, Ferdinand the good-natured -- Biedermeier romances -- Revolution and abdication -- XIII. Franz Josef: A long reign begins -- Young Franz Josef -- Empress Elizabeth -- Learning to rule -- Kaiserstadt -- Maximilian in Mexico -- Family life in the seventies -- XIV. The tragedy at Mayerlling -- A new throne heir: Rudolf -- Mary Vetsera -- Conspiracy of silence -- XV. Hofburg finale -- Elizabeth in mourning -- A friend for Franz Josef -- Uncle and nephew -- Turn-of-the-century Vienna -- Twilight -- Sarajevo -- Death of an emperor -- XVI. Curtain fall for the Habsburgs.

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