At the beginning of her ascension to the throne in October 1740, the Empress chose the Leopoldine wing of Hofburg palace as the residence of her family and, moreover, the seat of the government. The so-called bel étage on the first floor of the wing housed both her private appartement and the reception and official […]
Unsurprisingly, the scholars of the Enlightenment era were keen to discover the mechanisms of how folkloric superstition may have had a lethal impact on people’s state of mind as well as their physical body. They were in no way ignorant or dogmatically captive; quite the contrary, they took a progressive approach to the phenomenon and […]
This chapter presents the routine of a historian. Instead of rapid sensational breakthrough, we see laborious hunching over the desk, struggling with bewildering and contradictory documents, drawings and maps. Quite in the same manner as I suppose crime investigators do. Therefore, I did not at first consider that the pedantic scrutiny would be anything more […]
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