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There is an enormous literature on both kingship and state-building; on dynasties per se it is smaller. The following is a partial listing.
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Chapter 2: Austria’s destiny
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Chapter 3: The greatest generation
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Chapter 6: Endless war
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Chapter 11: To succumb with honor
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INDEX
Adrianople, Peace of 111
AEIOU motto 1–2, 49–50
Aix-la-Chapelle, treaty of 185–6
Albrecht I (1255–1308) 19–21
Bohemian crown, 20
Eternal League 19, 21
German king 19
marital alliance with Philippe IV of France, 20
nobles’ revolt 19
opposition and murder 20–1
rebellion in Styria 19
sons 21–3
uprising in Vienna 19
Albrecht II (1298–1358) 22–3
institutionalize rule in Austrian lands 22–3
Albrecht V (1397–1439) 28–9
achievements 29
practice of alienating imperial property 28
support to Emperor Sigismund 28
Anabaptism 71, 89
April Laws 225
Arras, treaty of 90
Augsburg, Peace of 63–4, 67, 72, 81
Austerlitz, battle of 214
Bach system 239
Barcelona, battle at 129
Battle of Nations 216
Berlin Conference, 1878 255
Bismarck, rise of 243
&
nbsp; Black Death 22
Blenheim, battle of 160, 168
Breitenfeld, battle of 136
Calvinism 72, 107
Cambrai, Peace of or “the Ladies’ Peace” 64–5, 74
Campo Formio, treaty of 212
Caporetto, battle of 260
Carlos II (1661–1700) 155–60
agricultural output 157
claims to succession 158
defeats by France 158
genetic problems 156
intellectual life in Spain 157
Juan José, rule of 156–7
Mariana (mother) 156
negotiations over succession 158–9
physical infirmities 155–6
Ryswick, treaty of 158
weakness of empire 157–8
Castilianization 86
Cateau-Cambrésis, treaty of 94
Catholicism 71–2, 94, 99–100, 103, 106–9, 111, 116, 118, 124, 132, 134–5, 139, 141–2, 151, 162, 165, 178–9, 182, 194, 263, 272–3
Charles II see Carlos II
Charles V (1500–58) 55–6, 59–68
affairs of “the Indies” 66
Charles’s abdication 67
Christendom, defender of 64–5
comuneros revolt 64
conquest of America 66
control of northern Italy 64
Diet of Regensburg in 1541 62–3
early life 59
Great Peasants’ War in 1524 62
Mühlberg, battle of 63
“New Laws” of 1542, enforcement of 66–7
new taxes 60
outbreak of Reformation 61–2
peaceful resolution to religious conflict in Germany 62
Peace of Augsburg 63–4, 67
popular in his Spanish kingdoms 60
Protestantism 63
reorganizing administration of territory, 61
revolt of germanías 60–1
rule in Holy Roman Empire 61
treaty with Ferdinand 67
Wahlkapitulation (“electoral capitulation”) 59
Charles VI see Karl VI
Cherasco, treaty of 125
Congress of Vienna 215, 216
Convention of Reichenbach 198
“Council of Blood” 89
“Council of Troubles” 89
Counter-Reformation 6, 99, 100, 107, 109–10, 113, 121, 131–2, 132, 137, 142, 145, 151–5, 157, 162, 163, 178–9
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