The Habsburgs- The History of a Dynasty

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by Benjamin Curtis


  Crimean War 241, 243

  Declaration of Pillnitz 198

  Diet of Regensburg 62–3

  division in the dynasty 25–8

  Council of Konstanz in 1415 27

  Ernst “the Iron” (1377–1424) 27

  Friedrich IV (1382–1439) 27

  Hussite rebellion 27

  Neuburg treaty 26

  partition treaty 26

  Privilegium maius 26

  war against Swiss Confederacy 26–8

  Downs, battle of 126

  Dual Monarchy 245–6, 255–6

  Dunes, battle of 129

  Dutch revolt 91–2, 103, 107

  dynastic strategies

  1440–1519 47–54

  architectural legacy 49–50

  court 52

  domains 53

  estates 53–4

  Friedrich III’s achievements 54

  hectic foreign policy, 53

  Hereditary Lands 52, 54

  institutionalizing rule 51–2

  interest in Roman law 51

  Italian Renaissance courts 50

  Landsknechte 53

  legitimacy 49

  liquidity problems 50

  Maximilian’s difficulties in Empire 52

  mines 53

  Renaissance ideals/structures 50

  reproduction 48

  solidarity 48–9

  Theuerdank 51

  Weißkunig 51

  1516–64 73–82

  Austrian aristocracy 80

  comuneros’ revolt 80

  cultural patronage 76

  division of house into Spanish and Austrian 73

  dynastic reproduction 73–5

  encabezamiento system of taxation, 80

  ideal of universal monarchy 81

  ideas of ruler’s role vis-à-vis Christianity 76

  juros (bonds) 78–9

  layers, political power 80

  legitimation strategies 75

  limitations of Ferdinand’s government 79

  naval expeditions 78

  patrimonial government 79

  universal monarchy, 76

  1556–1621 98–103

  Catholicism 99–100

  cooperation in governance 102

  court 100–1

  cultural patronage 103

  dynastic management 99

  marriage and production 98

  military expenditures 102

  religion 100

  valimiento aristocracy 102

  1564–1619 114–18

  cultural activities 116

  cultural patronage 118

  financial irregularities 117

  legacy 116–17

  problems with inheritance 115

  royal courts 115

  solidarity, complication in Austria and Spain 114

  1619–65

  courts of Ferdinands 142

  cultural patronage 141

  culture of devotion to Catholic Church 142

  developments in military 144

  ideal of restoring religious unity 145

  idea of reputación 141

  image of pietas austriaca 142

  marriage and familial relations 140

  Olivares’s foreign policy, 143

  prestige of Castilian culture 141

  threats to legitimacy 141

  Verneuerte Landesordnung 144

  war for 40 years 144–5

  1657–1705

  court 162

  court culture 163

  cultural achievements 163

  degrees of authority 164–5

  Germanization 162

  hereditary monarchy 165

  heritage of art and architecture 162–3

  legitimacy 161

  marriage and reproduction 160–1

  military growth 164

  1705–40 176–80

  abbey of Melk 178

  Counter-Reformation Catholicism 179

  Counter-Reformation intolerance 178

  cultural fusion of dynasty 177

  culture 177–8

  fiscal constraints 179

  institutionalization 178–9

  legitimacy 177

  marriage and reproduction 176–7

  Pragmatic Sanction 177

  reforms 179

  reproduction 176

  Spanish Riding School 178

  unified state—a Gesamtstaat 177

  Vienna’s Kärtnertor theater 178

  1740–92 198–207

  Baroque’s over-the-top religiosity 201–2

  centralization of power 204, 205

  claims to legitimacy and loyalty 199

  cultural patronage 202

  direct rule 204–5

  dynastic reproduction 198–9

  and evolution 199–200

  expansion of education 201

  “first mother” of her realms (Maria Theresia) 203

  function of ruler in era 202–3

  Germanization campaign 207

  higher incomes 205

  improved institutional structures 206

  influence of Jansenism 199

  Joseph and Leopold, traditions of kingship 203–4

  Joseph’s motivation for “Germanization” 201

  Maria Theresia’s leadership 206

  “modernization” in eighteenth century 204

  notions of state and service 200

  Pastoral Letter of 1783 204

  political memorandum of 1761 (Joseph) 200–1

  profusion of offspring 199

  religious attitudes 200

  sacrificing for state and well-being 203

  1792–1848 227–32

  economic and infrastructural development 230–1

  institutionalism 230

  legitimacy 228

  legitimizing strategies 228–9

  Metternich’s leadership 231

  monumental codification of civil law in 1812 230

  patriotism 229

  religion 229

  solidarity 228

  1795 third Polish partition 227, 228

  years of political stagnation 231–2

  1848–1918

  Catholicism 263

  German and Italian unification 264

  German artistic and scientific culture 268

  Josephinist inheritance 266

  legitimation and loyalty strategies 263–4

  multinational integration 267

  old practices of cultural sponsorship 265

  public benefits 266

  regional and national privileges 267

  reproduction, failures of 262–3

  societal change 268

  administrative structures 8

  Catholic faith 9

  estates 9

  patrimony 10

  professional bureaucracy 9

  sacralization 9

  vertical hierarchy of power 9

  coordination with other interest communities 33

  coordination with Church 33

  expanded role of state services 7

  “absolute” monarchy 8

  court, rules, display, and patronage 8

  “Spanish ceremonial” 8

  institutionalization of rule 31

  legal practices 32

  legitimation and loyalty creation 5, 30

  codification of law 8

  confessional loyalty 7

  education and social welfare 7

  French Bourbons or Hohenzollerns 7

  imperial ideology 5

  patrimony 7

  marriage prospects 29–30

  medieval governance 32

  “orders” in society 33

  papacy 33

  personal bonds 31

  Privilegium maius 30

  production and reproduction of dynasty

  cadet lines 5

  conceptions of impersonal, public state 3

  danger of marrying outside family 6

  inheritance 5

  inter-breeding 6

 
marital alliances 6

  partible inheritance 5

  production and reproduction of dynasty, 3

  Reformation and Counter-Reformation 5

  role and image of sovereign 30–1

  territorial lordship 31

  territorial partition 30

  theme of prestige and honor 31

  Edict of Restitution 135–6, 138

  Edict of Tolerance 194, 196

  Enlightenment 2, 8, 181–207

  “February Patent” 242

  Felipe II (1527–98) 83–95

  Alpujarras revolt 87–8

  Arras, treaty of 90

  bankruptcy 94

  1575 bankruptcy 89–90

  bureaucratic, desk-bound style 85–6

  Calvinists’ attack on Catholic churches 89

  “Castilianization” of Felipe 86

  Cateau-Cambrésis, treaty of 94

  characteristics 84

  collaboration in empire 86

  conflict with England 92–3

  Dutch pirates or “Sea Beggars” 89

  foreign policy 86–7

  “heretics” as subjects 90

  Inquisition 84

  Lutheranism and Anabaptism 89

  moriscos 87

  and Muslims 87

  papacy 85

  peace with France, 1598 95

  Portugal joined to Spain 91–2

  proclamation by Dutch States General 90

  re-Catholicization in England 92

  revolt in Netherlands 88

  “Spanish Fury” 90

  unifying Iberian peninsula 91

  Felipe III (1578–1621) 95–7

  arbitristas 96

  armistice with England in 1604 97

  expulsion of moriscos from spain 97

  food shortages 95

  monarchy’s problems 95

  validos, power of 96–7

  Felipe IV (1605–65) 122–31

  Andalusian nobility, revolt of 128

  bankruptcy, Spanish monarchy 124

  Catalan revolt 127

  Cherasco, treaty of 125

  Dunes, battle of 129

  El rey planeta (“the planet king”) 122

  General Crisis 129–30

  lover of arts 122

  Olivares and Felipe 122–4

  property tax 126

  reforms by Olivares 125

  riots against idea of union with Castile 126

  silver influx 130

  Spanish decline 130–1

  “Spanish Road” 126

  strategic commitments 122

  treaty with Dutch 129

  truces with England and France 126

  Union of Arms 125

  Ferdinand I (1503–64) 68–73

  Anabaptism 71

  Bohemian crown 69

  Calvinism 72

  Catholic reform proposals 72

  Charles’s regent in Hereditary Lands 68

  conflict with Ottomans 70–1

  devout Catholic 71

  Lutheranism 71

  nobles’ rebellion in 1547 69

  Protestant-Catholic schism 72

  “the second serfdom” 71

  succession to Hungarian crown 68–9

  tolerant of Protestantism 71

  “Turkish tax” 70

  xenophobic resistance 68

  Ferdinand I (1793–1875) 222–7

  abdication 227

  April Laws 225

  Austrian Academy of Sciences 222

  coronations in Prague/Milan 222

  customs union between Austria and Hungary 222

  first telegraph connection 222

  Germany, problems of monarchy 225

  Italy, secessionist pressures 226

  nationalism, growth of 223–4

  outbreak of revolution in 1848 223

  population growth and shortage of jobs 223

  1848 revolutions 224–5

  role in revolution 226–7

  Ferdinand II (1578–1637) 131–7

  Breitenfeld, battle of 136

  control over Bohemia 135

  Counter-Reformation 132

  Counter-Reformatory ardor 132

  Edict of Restitution 135–6

  elected king of Bohemia 133

  Friedrich, “Winter King” 134

  moral convictions 132

  re-Catholicization 132

  Swedish invasion 135

  tensions between Protestants and Catholics 133

  Thirty Years’ War, 133

  Verneuerte Landesordnung 134

  Ferdinand III (1608–57) 137–9

  alliance with Transylvanian prince György Rákóczi 138

  attacks from east, 138

  Counter-Reformation 137

  Felipe IV’s succession problems 139

  peaceful conclusion to wars 137

  Peace of Westphalia 138–9

  Swedes, enemity 139

  Thirty Years’ War 139

  France’s War of Devolution 150

  Francis I (II) see Franz I (II)

  Franz I (II) (1768–1835) 210–21

  Austrian influence in Italy 220

  Austrian National Bank in 1816 218

  Austro-German patriotism 214

  balance of power 216–17

  Battle of Nations in October 1813 216

  believed in rule of law 210

  Campo Formio, treaty of 212

  casualty of wars against France 213

  censorship 219

  complacent Austrian Biedermeier 218

  compulsory free primary schooling for girls 218

  1814–15 Congress of Vienna 215, 216

  customs unions 220

  decline of Habsburg influence in Germany 219–20

  development of monarchy 210–12

  developments outside monarchy 219

  emperor of Holy Roman Empire 210

  expiration of Holy Roman Empire 213

  French Revolution’s transformations 217, 218

  governance system 218

  growth of bourgeoisie 219

  Holy Alliance of Austria, Prussia, and Russia 218

  industrialization 218

  Metternich’s (diplomat) approach 214

  military and ideological campaigns, 212

  Napoleon, emperor of France 213

  Napoleon’s defeat 216

  nationalism and liberalism in Hungary 220–1

  Pressburg, treaty of 214

  railways and canals 218

  reforms 214, 219

  revolution abroad 212–13

  Sixth Coalition, formation of 215

  social changes 219

  War of Second Coalition 212

  War of Third Coalition 214

  wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France 210

  Franz Joseph I (1830–1916) 236–59

  abolition of serfdom 238

  Ausgleich (“compromise”) with Hungary in 1867 245

  Austria-Hungary into its alliance with Germany, 255

  autocratic centralism 239

  Bach system 239

  Balkan states 255

  Berlin Conference, 1878 255

  Bismarck, rise of 243

  Crimean crisis, 1853 240–1

  cultural bloom 248

  Czech/German language rights 253

  democratic state and society 250

  division of society along national lines 253

  domestic life 251–2

  dualism’s division of powers 245–6

  Dual Monarchy 256

  economy, advances in 247

  eminent writers in German 248

  extremism in South Slav areas 256

  “February Patent” 242

  foreign policy 255

  German-centric culture 253–4

  Hungarian revolutionaries 238

  Hungarian writers 248

  idealization of military 241

  International threats 256–7

  Kindertausch 253

  Königgrätz, battle of
244

  Kremsier Constitution 238, 239

  legislation 249

  Lombardy, possession of 241

  military and foreign policy 250–1

  Nagodba (“Agreement”) with Croat leaders 246

  nationalism 248

  neo-absolutist period 240

  “October Diploma” 242

  oktroyierte Märzverfassung (“imposed March constitution”) 238

  paternalism 240

  Prussian-Austrian war 243

  public goods 257

  reform of monarchy 257–8

  rigid professionalism 236

  rise of Christian Socials 249–50

  royal patent 239

  Russia, intervention from 238

  Solferino, battle of 241

  suppression of rebellions 236

  uprising in Galicia 243

  Votive Church in gothic style 249

  war for Italian unification 242

  World War One, disaster of 258–9

  French Bourbons or Hohenzollerns 7, 169, 174, 185, 213, 268

  French Revolution’s transformations 217, 218

  Friedrich I (1289–1330) 21–2

  Friedrich III (1415–93) 36–43

  achievement 41

  “Arch-sleepyhead” (Erzschlafmütze) 36

  Burgundian inheritance 41–2

  chaos of intra-family complications 38

  disorder in Austria 39–40

  Duke of Inner Austria in 1435 38

  dynastic succession issues 42

  heirs 38–9

  imperial diet meeting 40

  introverted personality 36

  mission 38

  periodic anarchy 36

  ruling style 36

  temporary regency by Tyolean estates 43

  use of young Habsburg heir 38–9

  wedding of Maximilian 41–2

  withdrawal from German affairs 40

  Germanization 162, 201, 207

  Great Northern War 169

  Great Peasants’ War 62

  Habsburg–Luxemburg inheritance treaty 29

  Habsburgs’ realms 10–14

  composite monarchies 10–11

  consolidating and centralizing 10

  heritage in eastern central Europe 11

  kings 12–13

  terminology 12

  “heretics” 90, 110

  Hungarian diet 152, 172–3, 181, 185, 188, 196, 220

  Jansenism 199

  Joseph I (1678–1711) 167–70

  campaigns of 1702 and 1704 in Germany 169

  conquest of Spanish Netherlands 168

  contrast between brother Karl VI 167

  educated by Jesuits 167

  financial contributions from estates 169–70

  Great Northern War 169

  Pactum mutuae succesionis 168

  rationalist intellectual trends 168

  revolt in Hungary and Transylvania 169

  subordination of Empire 169

  Vienna City Bank in 1706 168

  war with Bourbons 167

  Joseph II (1741–90) 190–6

  acquisition of Bavaria 195

  advances in public health 193, 196

  Austrian military 195–6

  dismissive treatment of Hungarian and Croatian diets 195

  economic and social reforms 193–4

  Edict of Tolerance of 1781 194, 196

 

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