Forest planning, rural practices, and woodland cover in an 18th-century Alpine Valley (Val di Fiemme, Italy): A geohistorical and GIS-based approach to the history of environmental... by Nicola Gabellieri, Ettore Sarzotti

“…The establishment of Habsburg norms represents a watershed in forest management with direct environmental effects that can be seen over the subsequent century. …”
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Le goût de l´Espagne. Opinión y “cosas” de una España imaginada desde y con Bartolomé Bennassar by Fernando Bouza

“…Also, it is proposed the urgent need to promote a deep debate on its reception, and even the response to it, in the Habsburg Spain.…”
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The Death of Jaromír Czernin 1908 by Michal Jirman

“… This article evaluates the death and funeral culture in the high aristocratic society of the Habsburg monarchy at the turn of the twentieth century, focusing on the illness and death of the mostly forgotten Count Jaromír Czernin (1818–1908). …”
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Fenomén středoškolský profesor druhé poloviny 19. století v habsburské monarchii. Robert Christian Riedl (1838-1909) by Marie Macková

“… Secondary school teachers in the Habsburg Empire in the second half of the 19th century ranked among those with an academic education and were usually state employees. …”
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Šlechtický fideikomis v Čechách 19. století (na příkladu hrabat z Althannu) by Marie Macková

“…Concerning the legal environment of the Habsburg monarchy, it appeared in the second half of the 17th century and was only abolished in 1924. …”
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Négociation de la distance : les circuits de communication et de représentation des intérêts locaux (monarchie et empire portugais, xviie et xviiie siècles) by Maria Fernanda Bicalho

“…The second concerns the representation of the colonial elites of the main overseas cities and villages during the meetings of the Portuguese Cortes, especially starting in the second half of the 17th century, after the Restoration, or the Portuguese independence from the Habsburg Catholic monarchy in 1640. Finally, the third is related to prosecutors sent from overseas municipalities to Lisbon to defend the interests and intentions of their elites.…”
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České evangelické sbory ve východní a jihovýchodní Evropě aneb „Bibli donesli ze sebou...“ by Gabriela Krejčová Zavadilová

“…Czech settlers helped populate the uninhabited peripheral parts of the Habsburg monarchy, or descendants of Czech exiles outside the monarchy established new settlements to ensure needed subsistence elsewhere at the growing number of inhabitants in original exile villages. …”
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Mettre en lumière des réseaux invisibles pour les historiens : la bipolarisation d’un réseau aristocratique à la cour de Vienne, 1685-1740 by Éric Hassler

“…In this way, it is possible to re-establish a history of the family and political networks at play at the Court and structuring both nobility and the policy of the Habsburg monarchy during the Modern period.…”
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Baroque “Spin-Doctoring”: The Manipulative Use of Caprara’s Reports from Constantinople in 1682 by Lothar Höbelt

“… Before the Second Siege of Vienna in 1683, there was a famous tug-of-war between “Easterners” and “Westerners” at Leopold I’s court. At that time, the Habsburg monarchy did not yet boast a “Foreign Office”. …”
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Nobility and domestic conviviality in the paintings of archduchess Maria Christine by Michael Yonan

“…This paper addresses that phenomenon by examining a social activity in which imagined identities could be explored and represented, namely art, through a discussion of the Habsburg Archduchess Maria Christine of Austria (1742-1798). …”
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Methodological solutions of oral history and their application in research into Czech evangelical communities in Eastern and South-eastern Europe by Gabriela Krejčová Zavadilová

“…The founders of these communities either left the territory of Bohemia and Moravia for the fringes of the Habsburg monarchy (they started to appear abroad only after the creation of Czechoslovakia), or they left the post-White Mountain exiles’ settlements in today’s Poland and set up new villages by the process of what is termed secondary migration. …”
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Druhý, tzv. Gibišův transport československých legií z Ruska do Francie (1917-1918) by Tomáš Jiránek

“…They discovered that the legionaries were perfect soldiers with the high combat morals which originated from the clear aim: they wished to destroy the Habsburg monarchy and create the independent Czechoslovakia. …”
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Challenges of Early Modern Diplomacy by Jonas Bechtold

“…Furthermore, these factors mainly influenced and drove cooperation and conflict between England and the Habsburg Emperors and the Imperial Estates, and so contribute to further understanding ‘diplomatic relations’ in the 16th century. …”
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The Transformation of Commons in Roşia-Montană. Which Property Regimen for Which Development? by Radu C. Barna

“…In the 18th-19th centuries, Roşia-Montană, a village in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania (Apuseni), Romania, has been privy to a period of prosperity due to the gold ore existing in the area, but also a period of social and cultural bloom due to the autonomy awarded by the government in Vienna (Transylvania was at the time a province in the Habsburg empire). The community of this village structured around some common goods owing to the harsh environment of mountain living conditions, as well as to the risks inherent to the mining activity. …”
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Judith Rebecca von Wrbna and Maria Sophia von Dietrichstein: Two Imperial Ambassadresses from the Kingdom of Bohemia at the Court of Madrid (1653–1674) by Laura Oliván Santaliestra

“…The Countess of Lamberg and the Countess of Pötting were ambassadresses during a special period: during their ‘embassies’, the “Question of the Succession” marked the Hispanic monarchy relations with the Holy Roman Empire; and a Habsburg Queen, Mariana of Austria, was consort (and after regent) of Spain. …”
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Poznámky ke vnímání řeholního života mezi barokem a osvícenstvím by Jiří Mikulec

“…At the beginning, the author attempts to analyse certain negative „enlightened“ attitudes to regular life in the Habsburg monarchy. He uses several promotional and publicist works showing that damnatory relation to monasteries occured together with the dissolution of monasteries in 1780. …”
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La transformation des « communs » à Roşia-Montană : Quel régime de propriété pour quel développement ? by Radu C. Barna

“…In the 18th-19th centuries, Roşia-Montană, a village in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania (Apuseni), Romania, has been privy to a period of prosperity due to the gold ore existing in the area, but also a period of social and cultural bloom due to the autonomy awarded by the government in Vienna (Transylvania was at the time a province in the Habsburg empire). The community of this village structured around some common goods owing to the harsh environment of mountain living conditions, as well as to the risks inherent to the mining activity. …”
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Císařská volba a korunovace ve Frankfurtu nad Mohanem roku 1612 a česká účast na těchto událostech by Petr Vorel

“… The author deals with the festivities of imperial election and coronation in Frankfurt am Main in May and June 1612 that brought to the imperial throne Bohemian king Matthias of Habsburg. He analyses political situation at that time and focuses on representative and political treatises that were published in connection with these events all around Europe. …”
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Hybrydowość kulturowa w przestrzeniach wielokulturowych by Börries Kuzmany

“… CULTURAL HYBRIDITY IN MULTICULTURAL REGIONS: HISTORIES OF GALICIAN CULTURE  This article investigates the complex interplay of cultures in Habsburg Galicia, a region marked by its diverse linguistic, religious, and ethnic makeup. …”
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Cross-Border Printing Privileges in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries by Nina Lamal

“…This article is the first attempt to study printing privileges transnationally, by focusing on the phenomenon of cross-border printing privileges in the seventeenth-century Habsburg Netherlands and the Dutch Republic. I examine both the foreign printers requesting a privilege in the Low Countries and local printers requesting a privilege from a foreign authority. …”
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