Death is known as the great equalizer, and for the Holy Roman Emperors, eternal rest comes with elaborate perks. Since 1633, ...

The Hungarian Historical Review, Vol. 11, No. 2, Austria-Hungary and the Balkans – from the Perspectives of New Imperial History (2022), pp. 422-444 (23 pages) In this essay, I situate the Habsburg ...

The Habsburgs, Europe’s most durable, powerful dynastic family, held sway from the late Middle Ages till the end of WWI, ruling lands that now comprise 19 modern countries. Penguin UK editor Winder ...

Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe By Simon Winder Farrar, Straus and Giroux 560 pages, $30 By Edward Cuddihy NEWS BOOK REVIEWER British author Simon Winder mapped out quite ...

A century has passed since the demise of the Habsburg Empire and the birth of Yugoslavia, and for the last hundred years, historians have tried to make sense of this change. I strive to answer the ...

This three-episode miniseries chronicles the rise and fall of the Habsburg Empire, one of the most powerful European empires in history. The Habsburg Empire lasted throughout the second millennium and ...

Every empire has its color. For the Habsburgs in Spain, it was a rich, deep shade of black. It’s the black that luxuriates the royal sitters of Diego Velázquez paintings, a color that was austere, ...