The ideal of the family is widely held to be that of a well-ordered and harmonious association of related individuals. ...

‘It is my will …’: on 20 December 1857 Emperor Franz Joseph signed the decree that was to give the ...

While an arable crop ‘revolutionized’ the eating habits of people in the Habsburg Monarchy, an imperial plough mutated into an ...

"W ith classes three God filled the world As best as best can be; One class must teach, another feed, ...

Oriental chic. The courtly collection for autumn/winter 1743: harem pants, silk and lashings of fur! Courtiers dressed in the latest ...

Where once the city walls of Vienna had stood was now the scene of a huge construction boom: public buildings ...

Over the centuries the Habsburgs amassed a considerable hoard of artworks and objects from nature. The way in which these ...

At the beginning of the seventeenth century developments in art were affected by the shortage of funds resulting from the ...

From the late Middle Ages mining played an important role in the economy of the Habsburg lands, reaching its peak ...

Nowadays Christmas is regarded as the epitome of the family celebration. The customs and rituals associated with it are often ...

In the nineteenth century Vienna continued to consolidate its reputation as the ‘city of music’, an image still used to ...

Concern for the welfare of subjects was also a concern for the functioning of the state, which was supposed to ...

In the fourteenth century swarms of locusts, an earthquake and heavy rainfall led to numerous famines. In the middle of ...

With the death of Crown Prince Rudolf the succession of the dynasty had to be settled anew. Conflict within the ...

Not all Habsburgs were granted the privilege of breathing their last in peace and quiet. Some had to pay for ...

‘Leading service provider with 600 years of experience and illustrious client base seeks new team recruit. Do you have an ...

Elisabeth is considered today the most popular Habsburg throughout the world. Her unconventional lifestyle and multifaceted biography, abbreviated to catchphrases ...

‘… shoemaker, tailor, linen-weaver, baker, merchant, gravedigger’. This children’s counting rhyme – still popular today – reflects the hierarchical society ...

The Habsburgs were no exception when it came to the allure of the exotic or foreign. Many things were brought ...

The emperor hovering over a microscope, the crown prince in his study? These would not have been unusual sights in ...

It was not only the threat of state bankruptcy that the Habsburgs had to grapple with; in the eighteenth century ...

What do you think of when the imperial city of Vienna comes into your mind? It is more likely to ...

At the end of the Middle Ages the prices of agricultural produce began to fall, and the feudal rents collected ...

‘Happy is he who forgets’ was certainly not the motto of Emperor Maximilian I, a monarch who did his utmost ...