Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time Stollberg-Rilinger Barbara
Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time Stollberg-Rilinger Barbara A major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and ruleMaria Theresa…
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Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time Stollberg-Rilinger Barbara
A major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and ruleMaria Theresa (1717-1780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger provides the definitive biography of Maria Theresa, situating this exceptional empress within her time while dispelling the myths surrounding her.Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Stollberg-Rilinger examines all facets of eighteenth-century society, from piety and patronage to sexuality and childcare, ceremonial life at court, diplomacy, and the everyday indignities of warfare. At the age of twenty-three, she ascended to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, a far-flung realm composed of diverse ethnicities and languages, beset on all sides by enemies and rivals.
She challenges the idealized image of Maria Theresa as an enlightened reformer and mother of her