Meaning well: The curious life of a habsburg idealist. (Books).(Emperor Maximilian II)

From: The National Interest | Date: December 22, 2001| Author: Wolff, Larry | Copyright information

Paula Sutter Ficlitner, Emperor Maximilian II (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), 368 PP., $35.

"IN OTHER countries dynasties are episodes in the history of the people; in the Habsburg Empire peoples are complications in the history of the dynasty", epigrammatically wrote A.J.P. Taylor in 1948 in The Habsburg Monarchy.(1) It is notable that in 2001, at a time when the royal biography is not an especially favored genre of professional historians, the Habsburgs can ...

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