‘Between East and West: The Vienna School and the idea of Czechoslovak art’ by Marta Filipova

“…Although the formation of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918 could be regarded in certain respects as a historical caesura, in others, there was continuity with the Habsburg past particularly in intellectual life. Czech art history between the wars was under strong influence of the Vienna school, especially Riegl and Dvořák’s theories, which their followers in Prague developed and adapted to the new political context. …”
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WESSELÉNYI DOMAIN OF JIBOU, A MODEL OF MULTISECULAR ARRANGEMENT by Rozalia BENEDEK, V. BENEDEK

“…Our study aims to make a presentation of the nobiliary domain Wesselényi in Jibou, aiming to the identification of functions and strategic arrangements for valorisation of the domain as irradiation models of welfare and multiple values, which became a multisecular standard by: emblematic characters, decisive actions carried out by these characters, in Transylvania, Hungary and the Habsburg Empire, to which the Principality of Transylvania belonged until the Great Union of 1918. …”
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0246 I disegni del Familienarchiv Harrach di Vienna per la committenza artistica nella Sala dei Viceré del Palazzo Reale di Napoli by Ilaria Telesca

“…From several sources we know that Count Wirich Philipp Lorenz von Daun, who governed as the viceroy of Naples from 1707 to 1708 and again from 1713 to 1719, commissioned the painter Paolo de Matteis to retouch the already extant portraits and to carry out new portraits, as well as an equestrian fresco of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI of Habsburg. Due to the loss of the original decoration (i.e., the portraits and the fresco) and also the lack of related visual and archival documents, it was not previously possible to carry out a diachronic study of this important commission to De Matteis in the Sala dei Viceré. …”
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Three Sketches on Nineteenth-Century Multicultural Trieste and Its Music: The Renewal of Social Classes, the Whirlpool of National Awakening by Ivano Cavallini

“…During the reign of Maria Theresia and her son Emperor Joseph II, Trieste was completely rebuilt and became an attractive freetax port of the Habsburg Empire. From the beginning of the eighteenth century to the first decade of the twentieth century, the population of Trieste increased from 5,000 to 230,000 inhabitants with an incredible number of migrants coming from Central Europe and the Mediterranean coastal areas. …”
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The Visit of Envoy Osip Nepeya to England (1556–1557): Success or Failure of Russian Diplomacy? by Aleksandr Kiselev

“…He analyzes Nepeya’s mission to England in the context of foreign affairs of Ivan IV, Mary Tudor and Philip II Habsburg. Results. It is concluded that the rulers of Spain and England could provide military support to Ivan IV, but they were not interested in military and political alliance with the Muscovy and the war against Turkey. …”
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The Bishops’ House in the Romanian Pastoral Village of Rășinari (Mărginimea Sibiului) and its Hidden Treasures: A Short Legal History of the Book of Village Boundaries and the Deed... by Ela Cosma

“…Based on methods pertaining to Cyrillic and Latin palaeography, ecdotics, and legal history, we analyse precious documents discovered in the Church Museum of Rășinari, contained in the 18th century Orthodox Bishops’ House: 1. the extract of a deed of donation made in 1383 by Voivode Radu Negru to the Saint Paraschiva Church in Rășinari; 2. the Book of village boundaries of 1488, describing a perambulation for the separation of boundaries between the Romanian village and the Saxon one of Cisnădie; 3. the manuscript volume Transmissionales in causa Possessionis Resinar contra Liberam Regiamque Civitatem Cibiniensem 1784 (1,318 pages), a veritable legal mirror reflecting juridical relations, procedures and lawsuits specific to South Transylvania under Habsburg suzerainty. The examination of the medieval Cyrillic-Romanian documents’ variants, late copies and even 18th century Latin translations highlights the conclusion regarding the special historical, linguistic and legal value of the treasures hidden in the Bishops’ House of Rășinari. …”
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Giovanni Paolo Marana’s Turkish Spy and the Police of Louis XIV: the Fear of Being Secretly Observed by Trained Agents in Early Modern Europe by Aleksandra Porada

“…Apart from the fact that the novel was written in a brilliant style, and published at the time when the ongoing Habsburg-Turkish war had triggered intensive interest in the Muslim East, one of these reasons was the fact that it was published in the time when in France a modern police force was created. …”
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The Three Versions of the Ultimatum Game: An Example from the History of Creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes 1914-1918 by Dušan Pavlović, Stevo Đurašković

“…The negotiations among the Serbian Cabinet and the Yugoslav Committee representatives of the Habsburg Souths Slavs from 1914-1918 exemplify three versions of this game. …”
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National treasure or a redundant relic: the roles of the vernacular in Czech art by Filipová, Marta

“…This politically important period that saw the transformation of the Habsburg monarchy into new independent states, including Czechoslovakia, was also marked by the establishment of modernism in Central Europe. …”
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The Rise and Fall of Bishop Georg Wolfgang Chiolich, 1699–1764 by Tamás Szemethy

“…Searching for a reply to this question, we can gain some insight into the social, economic, and especially political processes of the Habsburg Empire in the mid-eighteenth century. Descended from a wealthy patrician family of Senj (Zengg), while Chiolich proved to be a talented organizer and took significant steps towards rebuilding his still-ruined bishopric in the mid-eighteenth century, he may not have been a saint. …”
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Lviv editions of liturgical books in Basilian Monasteries of Maramorosh County (according to visitations of 1749 and 1756) by Tupytsia Mykhailo

“…It should be mentioned that each of them was supported bythe Habsburg Catholics and the Calvinists of the Transylvanian princes. …”
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SECONDARY DATA COLLECTION AND HERITAGE DOCUMENTATION - CASE STUDY OF A REMOTE DOCUMENTATION OF TRAVNIK’S VAROŠKA MOSQUE by C. Jäger-Klein, E. Kodzoman, L. Stampfer

“…After two disastrous fires in Travnik in 1903, the Austro-Hungarian administration designed a new and secure mosque building model typology following a distinctive style of Habsburg-Bosnia. In order to understand the interventions which were carried out in that time, the research team examined the limited plan documentation from the 1990s. and collected the basic measurements by working on-site. …”
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Tax Policy of the Fourth Estate? by Tomáš Sterneck

“…After an outline of the structure of the estate-organized society of the Moravian Margraviate and the role of territorial lord’s—royal and chamber—towns in it, the article introduces the natural and fiscal burdens weighing down the urban organisms and escalating in line with the wars of the Habsburg Monarchy against the expansive Ottoman Empire. …”
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The Green Cadres and the collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918 by Benes, JS

“…This article is about a loose transnational movement of army deserters and radicalized peasants known as ‘Green Cadres’ that appeared in 1918 in rural areas of the Habsburg Monarchy. Scattered and fragmented, these insurrectionary forces nonetheless undermined imperial authority in the countryside toward the end of the First World War, thereby contributing to the demise of Austria-Hungary. …”

Urban network in Poland during last millennium by Iwona Jażdżewska

“…The first, lasting from the 8th century until the union of Kreva in 1385, encompasses the beginnings of the establishment and spreading of urban settlement network; the second – the merger of the urban network with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and its strengthening in the joint state; the third – the disappearance of Poland from the map of Europe and the breakup of the settlement network into three parts: tsarist Russia, the Habsburg monarchy, Prussia, and the start of industrialisation of the partitioned land; the fourth refers to the period when Poland, after 123 years, reappeared on the administrative map of Europe (1918-1939); and the fifth one covers the period from 1945 to the present day. …”
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Central European with a Post-Socialist Limp : On the Slovene Legal Identity by Marko Novak

“…Even after the decline of the Habsburg Empire, what remained to apply on the territory of nowadays Slovenia as part of the then Kingdom of Yugoslavia, was to an important extent Austrian law. …”
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Count Joseph von Rabatta and the Image of Croatian Frontiersmen (End of the 17th – Beginning of the 18th Century) by Sanja Lazanin

“…The centre of focus is a Habsburg officer in the Karlovac Generality and the population of this area in Croatia. …”
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The ethics of deception: secrecy, transparency and deceit in the origins of modern political thought by Rubio, D

“…I examine sources from the major Western territories, but I pay special attention to those produced in the Spanish-Habsburg Empire, which was a major political and cultural entity during this period.…”

Biographies of a reformation: religious change and confessional coexistence in Upper Lusatia, c. 1520-1635 by Christ, M

“…This meant that the Habsburg king of Bohemia ruled over a Lutheran region. …”

Relics, dreams, voyages: world baroque by Davidson, P

“…Minority cultures: exiles and Celts. Global networks: Habsburg and Jesuit. Diversity of exiles: Jacobites and recusant Catholics; wandering Gaelic scholars; mercenary soldiers and their visual culture; art dealers in eighteenth-century Rome. …”