The beginning of this epoch is marked by conflict between two kings: Rudolf I, crowned in 1273 as the first Roman-German king of the Habsburg dynasty, and Ottok ...

During the course of the fourteenth century the Habsburgs slowly establish their power base. ...

In 1477 Charles the Bold of Burgundy falls in battle and his heir and daughter Mary subsequently marries the future emperor Maximilian I. ...

Religious schisms convulse Western Christianity and change European society profoundly. ...

This is the age of magnificent courtly display. Under Leopold I work starts on the rebuilding of Schönbrunn Palace and on additions to the Hofburg in Vienna. ...

Informed by the ideas of the Enlightenment, the state is reorganized on rational principles to further the welfare of its subjects. ...

A time of violent convulsions: the French Revolution sends shockwaves across Europe, Napoleon changes the political map of Europe for good and the Austrian Empi ...

The nationalist movements in various parts of Europe herald an era of change for the Habsburg Monarchy – northern Italy is lost, autonomy conceded to Hungary an ...

The Austrian writer Karl Kraus called the Great War the Last Days of Mankind. ...