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St Nicholas’ Day gifts and a fortune ‘under the mattress’

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Hieronymus Löschenkohl: Maria Theresa’s last day, copperplate engraving, 1780
Maria Theresa with her husband and children at the distribution of gifts on the Feast of St Nicholas, gouache, 1762
Empress Maria Theresa’s bed of state

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- From the Logbook of Kume Kunitake
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- Anatomical wax models und tobacco enemas – the Josephinum as a training institution for medical students
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- Prostitution. A case for the Morality Police
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- Pension provision appropriate to station
- Who is overseeing whom? – The bureaucratic state of Joseph II
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- Everyone learns their times tables!
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- Read, read, read …
- Maria Theresia and the moral crusade
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- From monk to pastor
- Recycling, even in death
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- By your leave, my name is …
- Settlement projects for Jews and Protestants
- The Habsburg heiress versus the European world of men
- The peace-loving mother-figure versus the neurotic megalomaniac?
- Employer: His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, the Emperor
- Classes for the masses: hierarchies of service at the imperial Court
- Yet another war against the Turks – but this time it was for the last time
- The people versus the useful emperor
- On the edges of power – the four highest ceremonial Court ranks
- The Court Kitchens – dining at the emperor's behest
- The emperor as only one person saw him: the valet de chambre and the human sides of the monarch
- In the shadow of imperial splendour – the Emperor's difficulties with his staff
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- A war over plums and potatoes
- A place in the sun: Joseph II, the Augarten and how the Viennese spent their leisure time
- Liberté, égalité, fraternité – Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
- A family presents itself - Maria Theresa and the image of the dynasty
- The Franzensburg – the ‘citizen-emperor’s’ chivalric fantasy
- Against the ‘Jacobin conspiracy’
- Archduke Johann: back to nature – the Tyrolean Garden at Schönbrunn
- Forwards into history – The ‘Maria-Theresian style’
- Aux armes, citoyens – Citizens, to arms!
- Battles between ‘emperors’ and ‘peoples’
- The victor of Aspern
- His Imperial Majesty deigns to announce ... the Court and the public domain
- The Kapuzinergruft – last residence of the Habsburgs
- Resistance in the ‘holy land’ of Tyrol: a Tyrolean Taliban?
- The bad guy defeated by the worse ones
- Franz Joseph and Elisabeth – and they lived happily ever after?
- The tender shoots of love: the imperial honeymoon at Laxenburg
- Elisabeth and the constraints of courtly life
- Fresh milk from happy cows – the Kammermeierei
- The Achilleon on Corfu – Elisabeth’s flight into antiquity
- Old times, new times: the coronation of Joseph II in Frankfurt
- A wedding album – the marriage of Joseph II to Isabella of Parma
- The Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy: the coronation of the Hungarian royal couple
- The last act – stately obsequies
- Schönbrunn – imperial research laboratory
- South-Sea reveries – traces of the exotic at Schönbrunn
- When an emperor prepared his inventory … … then the population was counted
- ‘The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Words and Pictures’
- An encyclopaedia of the Monarchy
- A difficult relationship – Maria Theresa’s Prague legacy
- Theresienstadt
- Reichstadt – a comfortable retreat for former rulers
- ‘When Bohemia still belonged to Austria …’
- Eljen király – Long live the king! Maria Theresa and Hungary
- The castle in Buda – symbol of the Compromise
- Gödöllö Palace – Country residence of the Hungarian royal couple
- Miramare – ‘A beautiful house on the seashore’
- Schloss Hof – aristocratic country residence and Habsburg family palace
- Laxenburg – the Habsburg Arcadia
- The Hermes Villa – a private residence funded by the state?
- Bad Ischl – heaven on earth
- From Sarajevo to Artstetten – Franz Ferdinand’s final resting place
- Palais Augarten: a place of recreation for Archduke Otto
- Flushing out woodcock and chasing wild boar – Franz Joseph and his passion for the chase
- A myth is created – Maria Theresa and Schönbrunn
- With pomp and circumstance – Schönbrunn as the arena of the Imperial Court
- In the company of gods and heroes – the Habsburgs, Schönbrunn and classical antiquity
- Private – No Entry!
- Schönbrunn – final glory and last arena of the Monarchy
- Schönbrunn in the inter-war period – a palace without an emperor
- Schönbrunn after the Second World War – nostalgia and imperial cult
- Wolferl and Nannerl at Court
- A genius in search of a position
- Mozart vs. Salieri 0:1 – a musical contest at the imperial Court
- Turks in Vienna! The Abduction from the Seraglio at Vienna’s Burgtheater
- The pianist: Mozart as virtuoso performer
- The Marriage of Figaro, the tale of a revolutionary barber
- The longed-for position at court: Mozart as Imperial-Royal Court Composer
- La clemenza di Tito – but no clemency for Mozart
- ‘O Isis and Osiris!’ The Masonic opera, The Magic Flute
- Mozart’s last composition
- Turquerie – the reception of the Orient in Europe
- Maria Theresa in Turkish dress
- Impaling Turks’ heads at Court
- The first opera at the imperial Viennese Court
- Pomp and state: Baroque festivities at the Viennese court
- Party-time: The marriage of Leopold I and Margarita of Spain
- An emperor as composer
- A musical family
- Domestic music-making instead of festive operas – the end of the Baroque opera
- The party continues: private performances by the imperial children
- A private stage: the theatre at Schönbrunn Palace
- From real tennis court to Court Theatre
- A traffic obstruction: the Kärntnertortheater
- Noble entertainment, loss-making ventures
- ‘Woeful taste’: German-language theatre in need of censorship
- Kasperl versus Sonnenfels: the ‘Hanswurst controversy’
- An Emperor as theatre director and talent scout
- Happy endings: a ‘Viennese’ ending for Hamlet & Co.
- Conserving the old from fear of the new
- The Heldenberg: a monument to patriotism
- The Vienna Arsenal – from Hall of Fame of the Austrian army to centre of the sciences
- God saved the Emperor – and Vienna got the Votivkirche
- Two men on horseback preside over ‘Heroes’ Square’
- Historic rallies on Heldenplatz
- Habsburg heroes, heroines and sons of the Muses – monuments on the Ringstrasse
- City walls, bastions and glacis – protection or hindrance?
- From fortification to promenade
- Protection from the proletariat
- ‘It is my will’
- The construction of the Ringstrasse
- Military drill must continue!
- Ringstrasse palaces
- Live like a prince, party like an artist
- The Corso of the Viennese bourgeoisie
- The Ringstrasse as stage: a pageant for Emperor and people
- The Viennese coffee house
- Grand Hotels on Vienna’s boulevard
- Is the Emperor rich? Where the Habsburgs got their money from
- Not creditworthy – Habsburgs ‘plagued’ by money worries
- Gulden and krone, coins and paper. Or: How did the Empress pay?
- A Fortune loses its owners – Habsburg assets after 1918
- Thrifty Court and expensive army – State expenditure
- Tax matters – State revenue
- The palace of money – Where does all the money come from?
- The Emperor’s savings book and the State’s financiers – Banks and insurance in the Monarchy
- Quick money versus old aristocracy
- Crisis in the highest circles – Economic boom and stock exchange crash
- Consumption goes to town – The capital as a ‘city of consumption’
- Shopping venues – Inequalities in consumption
- If your company wants to use the imperial coat of arms. The Imperial-Royal Court Suppliers
- Exclusive items and buying in bulk – What the Habsburgs ordered from the Suppliers to the Imperial-Royal Court
- 30 kg of salami or how much does an emperor eat? How the Court was supplied with food
- Naked archduke at Court supplier Sacher! A headline that is also good publicity
- What do Franz Joseph and a woman revolutionary have in common?
- To every region its task? ‘Division of labour’ in the Habsburg lands
- A museum, a university and spies for Franz II (I) – Economic promotion under Franz II (I)
- Mass products at the imperial Court – Some indicators of industrial production
- Exhibit the world – Vienna as World Exhibition venue
- For progress or against technology – Contemporary opinions of technical inventions
- Habsburg and Co. Ltd. – Habsburgs as industrialists
- Named for Imperial Highnesses – Railways create new mobility
- All ways lead to Vienna – Trains mean quick journeys over long distances
- Two rulers in an ‘automobile’ – Of means of transport for the emperor and for his people
- A princess on a bicycle – Bicycles in the crowded streets
- New in the catalogue: apartments with running water – Too little and too much water in Vienna
- Let there be light - Gas and electricity light up Vienna
- Living in a top location – Neighbours of the Habsburgs
- Does industry go with monarchy? Factories and their workers are kept at arm’s length
- It is forbidden to wear clogs! Saving energy under Maria Theresa and Joseph II
- Coal instead of wood – Coal as an alternative supplier of energy
- Through the Monarchy by mail coach – Improvements to the road network
- The Danube flows in the wrong direction – Waterways as a form of transport with obstacles
- Unidentified flying object approaching from Prague – Balloon journeys as a spectacular show
- The Emperor is spinning, the Empress is peeved – Workshops and Habsburg economic policy
- Cottage industry – Outwork and ‘putting out’
- ‘Spinning Jenny’ versus the workshops or ‘manufactories’ – Of workshops and new machines
- With needle and thread – The invention of the sewing machine
- The guilds as tax collectors – Eighteenth-century craft reforms
- Does competition stimulate trade? Journeymen in Vienna protest against the ‘manufactories’
- If you earn money you can go shopping – The link between the manufactories and consumerism
- St Nicholas’ Day gifts and a fortune ‘under the mattress’ – What Maria Theresa earned and did with her money
  - St Nicholas’ Day gifts and a fortune ‘under the mattress’
- More state, less private enterprise. Or: Marrying can make you rich!
- The ‘fat lady’ in Ethiopia - Maria Theresa’s likeness on its travels
- Money of paper – Financial necessity is the mother of invention
- Let speculation commence ... The founding of the Vienna Stock Exchange
- Joseph II’s ‘sacred’ plough – The Emperor as farmer
- Survey the country and put a tax on land – The Josephinian land register was used for a new system of taxation
- More land for agriculture – The search for arable land
- Dead sparrows and prayers against locusts – Measures to increase yields
- What is put on the table is eaten! A short history of the potato
- Attention: End of customs area! Customs borders as economic obstacles
- Tolls are not there for fun – Anyone going on a journey had to pay tolls
- Who is protected by protective tariffs? Sealing off the Monarchy as a form of economic programme
- At the Hungarian border things came to a stop – Hungary is given the role of the Monarchy’s granary
- Go forth and multiply! The Habsburgs’ human capital
- Measure the masses – Of ‘descriptions of souls’ and house numbers
- More people – Population growth in the Monarchy
- For the happiness of the population? State welfare and tax systems
- It is not (only) a matter of size – The population must work more
- The last knight: Maximilian I
- Sympathetic towards Protestants: Maximilian II
- The Habsburg ‘fraternal quarrel’: Rudolf II against Matthias
- The tripartite division of the Austrian inheritance
- Charles V and the empire ‘on which the sun never set’
- The birth of the Austrian line: Ferdinand I
- Maximilian and the preservation of his memory
- 28 The ‘Black Men’ and an emperor
- A medieval ‘freelancer’: Albrecht Dürer
- The ‘completer’: Ferdinand I
- Depicting imperial might in pictures – with fruit
- Who am I?
- The horn of a unicorn and the Holy Grail: the Habsburg treasure
- Theatrum mundi: the whole world contained in a single chamber
- The Ambras Kunstkammer
- The Kunst- und Wunderkammer of Emperor Rudolf II
- Collecting among the middle classes
- Systematization: how the Habsburg art collections came to form the basis of modern museums
- The counter-reformers: Charles II of Inner Austria and Ferdinand II
- Art and the Thirty Years’ War
- Monastic institutions in Austria
- Foreign dominance in the Austrian painting sector
- A house in the country
- Stately architecture – Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
- The importance of art and artists for the Habsburgs
- Freelance artists in the sixteenth century
- Working at Court I: pro and contra
- Working at Court II: conditions of production
- Art in the service of power
- Marry me – the functions of portraiture
- The beloved family
- This portrait is enchanting fair – portraiture as a source of income
- Private insights
- The fascination of the past
- An anthem for the emperor
- Franz Joseph’s portrait
- Money from the ‘New World’ – sources of money and taxation under the Habsburgs
- Wars are an expensive business – Defence against the Turks as a burden on Habsburg finances
- Turning lead into silver – Experiments in alchemy at the Imperial Court
- ‘Sponsored by Fugger’ – Trading houses as financial backers
- (In)voluntary loans – The Jews as financial backers
- White gold – The Habsburgs’ salt monopoly
- Salt sites – Where the Habsburgs produced their salt
- The land of silver and coins – Mining silver and minting coins in Tyrol
- Old iron – The iron and arms industries in the early modern period
- The knife’s edge – Scythes and knives as big sellers
- Merry on wine and beer – Tales of inns and taverns
- Brewing beer, growing wine and providing revenue for the authorities – Of breweries and vineyards
- Aristocrats with a sweet tooth – How chocolate ‘conquered’ Vienna
- Therapeutic, luxurious and a stimulant – Coffee and tea are put on the menu
- As sweet as sugar – from luxury item to article of mass consumption
- The joys of smoking versus addiction to tobacco – From nobleman to farmer’s wife, smoking is for everyone
- When non-smoking threatened the Monarchy – The non-smokers of Lombardy
- Good sight – Spectacles are put on noses
- Measuring time – Of large tower clocks and small pocket watches
- Punctual town dwellers, timeless peasants, leisurely women – Or: why clock time is not for everyone
- A look at the starry heavens – Sights and insights through the telescope
- Oxen at knock-down prices - peasant levies
- Fish on the table – Fish ponds as a source of income
- Rags and rag collectors – On making paper
- Crystal clear – Glass production in the early modern period
- Speculation in foodstuffs in the early modern period – The links between weather, manorial estates and grain prices
- Guaranteed cheap and definitely not stolen – Flea markets in the early modern period
- Everything one’s heart desires – Europe’s commercial arteries
- Of markets and fairs – and their importance for trade
- Not a global player after all – On overseas trade
- The Court as ‘liberator’ – Of Court craftsmen and craftsmen ‘exempted by the Court’
- Worries about the younger generation: Charles VI
- Reforming zeal in the Baroque: Joseph I
- Another Ferdinand: Ferdinand III
- Leopold I: ‘Türkenpoldl’
- Persecutor of the Protestants: Ferdinand II
- A question of priorities
- Vienna Gloriosa: The grandiose projects of Charles VI
- The Ceremonial Apartments
- The Presidential Chancellery and the long shadow of the double eagle
- The subtle distinction: Court Ball and Ball at Court
- The public banquet – a visual feast for the crowd
- The Court as the source of power
- A closed society
- Noblesse oblige – aristocratic career paths
- Faith and power – the nobility and the Catholic Church
- Vienna – the city as stage for the display of aristocratic status
- Governors thrown out of window
- The Czech trauma of Bílá Hora
- Emperor Ferdinand II intoxicated by power
- ‘Heja Sverige’: The Swedes are coming
- Wallenstein: death by murder
- The war’s terrible final phase
- Peace at last
- A new great power in south-east Europe: the Ottoman Empire
- The Emperor and his Court
- ‘Blood enmity’ with France: Charles V against Francis I
- The omnipotence of etiquette – ceremonial at the Viennese Court
- ‘The Turk’ at the gates of Vienna: Episode 1
- (Minor) hostilities along the Military Frontier
- Members only – the right of admission to Court
- Habsburg versus the Sun King
- ‘The Turk’ at the gates of Vienna: Episode 2
- A question of honour – receiving the diplomatic corps
- Honorary services at Court – it’s being there that counts!
- The battle for the Spanish inheritance
- On the 'Empress’s side' – women at Court
- Prince Eugene, the ‘noble knight’
- Imperial ‘downtime’: the Habsburg passion for hunting
- The emperor’s new clothes – Joseph II’s break with tradition
- Happy imperial holidays – summer residences around Vienna
- Marrying into Burgundy: Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy
- Marrying into Spain: Philip the Fair and Joan the Mad
- Marrying into Bohemia and Hungary with a double wedding in Vienna
- Daughters and sisters, get married!
- Schönbrunn before ‛Schönbrunn’ – the beginnings
- From castle in the air to château de plaisance – Schönbrunn and Fischer von Erlach
- The allure of the exotic – Habsburgs and the fashion for all things Chinese
- The Hradčany – the castle at Prague
- Pressburg – the capital of exile
- Graz – a bulwark of faith
- The Golden Fleece
- The Neugebäude – an idealist’s dream
- The Habsburgs’ Spanish dream
- The Escorial
- Rudolf II and the ‛Golden City’
- The new Rome: Fischer von Erlach and the 'Kaiserstil'
- The Karlskirche
- Wanted: gravediggers!
- Syphilis – an American disease?
- Dealing in drugs and herbs. A lucrative business
- Popular medical treatments – cupping, bleeding and purging
- Imbalances of the humours and the nervous system: the beginning of the campaigns against onanism
- Hosts, patron saints and books of miracles. White magic for Christians
- A robot in Prague and an elixir for Rudolf II
- In league with the devil
- Healing with herbs. Theriac and other remedies
- Washing, drawing, lancing – the requisite skills for a barber-surgeon in early modern times
- From the Hutterites to the Amish
- With the caroja to the auto-da-fé. The Spanish Inquisition
- Counting the days afresh
- Tertius gaudens – when two quarrel, a third rejoices
- Horn: town of insurgent Estates
- The Wiener Neustädter Blutgericht – the hanging tribunal at Wiener Neustadt
- Anti-Fuggerians in the mines
- ‘When Adam delved and Eve span …’
- Making war pay
- Life in the towns and cities
- Jesuits evangelize the world
- Tour de France and Giro d’Italia: popular tours even before the days of the racing bike
- Peasants on border patrol
- Croatian colonists for a devastated (Burgen)land
- The ‘legs’ of the community: Of pedlars and the imperial Taxis Post
- Monarch of all he surveys. The patriarchal household
- Living (like) in a commune?
- Childbearing and childrearing. Women in the household
- Like father, like son …
- The Church has its say. New standards of morality for the household-family
- The natural history collections
- Ostarrîchi: Austria under the Babenbergs
- The Habsburgs’ origins as a Swiss noble family
- Rudolf I of Habsburg: From ‘poor count’ to King of the Romans
- King Ottokar’s Fortune and End
- The Habsburgs take over Austria
- A king and his murderer
- Forgery à la Habsburg: the Privilegium maius
- If I were King ... – Duke Rudolf IV ‘the Founder’
- Fraternal strife and territorial partitioning
- Anything holy will fetch a good price – The medieval trade in religious relics
- Good business under the protection of saints – Markets in monasteries and cemeteries
- Monastery business matters – Monasteries and trade in the Middle Ages
- Off to the ‘holy places’ – Pilgrims and pilgrimages in the Middle Ages
- ‘The end of the world is nigh’ – The people of Europe beset by natural disasters
- ‘Mortalitas magna’ – the ‘Great Death’ – the plague epidemic of 1348-9
- Large areas of land completely deserted – Demographic trends and agricultural production
- Lord of the manor has vacancies for peasants, with possible tenure for life – The origin of the peasant class
- Of maids and day labourers, craftsmen and the ‘unhoused’ – Social groups in the countryside
- Peasants versus the lords of the manor – Rural revolts
- ‘High society’ – How having the rights of a burgher went hand in hand with social status
- On the fringes of town – beggars, prostitutes, hangmen
- Craftsmen are men – and women? Work for women and men in the world of urban crafts and trades
- Tuesday and Saturday are market days – crafts, markets and food supplies in medieval Vienna
- Persecution of the Jews in the Middle Ages – With social and economic motives and religious and ideological legitimation
- Ancient connections: Swiss monasteries as Habsburg loci of remembrance
- The Holy Roman Empire and the divine order of the world
- Schloss Eckartsau: Emperor Karl on his way into exile
- What do the Emperor’s apartments look like?
- The emperor’s furniture – the Hofmobiliendepot
- Signs of imperial majesty: the Crown of Rudolf
- A cathedral without a bishop: St Stephen’s in Vienna
- Almost a crown: The Austrian archducal coronet
- Pious religious zeal as a sovereign virtue
- The quest for ‘blue blood’ – the Habsburgs’ fictitious ancestors
- AEIOU
- The House of Austria – the Habsburgs and the Empire
- The double-headed eagle: the omnipresent emblem of the Habsburgs
- The struggle for peoples’ souls – the Habsburgs and the Counter-Reformation
- Magna Mater Austriae – the veneration of the Virgin as the Habsburg state cult
- Marks of presence: ecclesiastical endowments of the Habsburgs in Vienna
- Mauerbach and Gaming: the rise and fall of two Habsburg monastic foundations
- Under the sign of the Cross
- The Habsburg Court monastery – St Augustine’s
- New spirit in old buildings: religious houses in the Baroque era
- The question of utility: The ‘Klostersturm’ under Joseph II
- The Erbhuldigung – The act of Hereditary Homage
- The Corpus Christi procession – ‘God’s Court Ball’
- The beginnings – the medieval Hofburg
- The spiritual centre: the Hofburg Chapel
- In humility: the foot-washing ceremony
- Wiener Neustadt – the ‘forever loyal’ city
- The Habsburg heaven: patron saints of lands and dynasty
- Innsbruck – Residence with Alpine panorama
- For God, Emperor and Fatherland
- The textualization of the world
- If only I could read
- Places of learning: schools
- A Viennese institution: the Collegium civium
- Book production in the Middle Ages
- What did people read in the Middle Ages? Courtly and middle-class reading matter
- The invention of the printing press
- The secularization of education
- I want more! The revolution in reading in the eighteenth century
- Pirate editions commissioned by the state
- A university for Vienna
- Teachers and students at Vienna University
- ‘Bursen’ and ‘Koderien’ – the student hostels of the Middle Ages
- Septem artes liberales: What was studied in the Middle Ages?
- Winds of change – humanism arrives at Vienna University
- More state influence: Gerard van Swieten’s reform of the university
- Revolution! Academic freedom for the university and women in the lecture halls
- A travelling orchestra for Maximilian I
- An official post at last! The secularization of the Hofmusikkapelle
- A difficult legacy? The Hofmusikkapelle on its journey to the present day
- Courtly and popular pleasures
- Viennese masquerades
- Historicism – the architectural style of the Ringstrasse
- The glory that was Rome – Franz Joseph’s dream of an Imperial Forum
- The emperor’s architects
- The palaces of art and science
- It’s a record! 15,527 visitors on one day at the Kunsthistorisches Museum
- Buried alive? The new Burgtheater on Vienna’s Ringstrasse
- The ‘sunken chest’: The building of the Vienna Court Opera on the Ring
- A new venue: the Redoute Rooms
- The bears are out! Bloodthirsty pleasures at the Hetz amphitheatre
- The Biedermeier mania for dancing
- The Viennese coffee house
- The Viennese waltz
- The Strauss dynasty – a family business
- Roll up, roll up! Entertainments in the Prater
- Vienna’s new art-loving bourgeoisie
- Censored!
- Singing a chorus for freedom in the police state
- The home of opera: The Kärntnertortheater
- Musical life in the new opera house on the Ring
- Serious and dangerous entertainments
- Weh dem, der lügt! Censorship in the theatre
- A social hotspot: the Burgtheater
- 'Our revels now are ended': the old Burgtheater moves to its new premises on the Ring
- The theatre-makers
- Maria Theresa, empress and interior designer
- Trying out comfort and cosiness for a change: Biedermeier at Court
- ‘Dispensing with all unnecessary pomp’
- … And what about middle-class households?
- A ‘Turkish Salon’ in the Vienna Hofburg
- Leopoldine: Sunday’s child
- 1816 – A fateful year for Leopoldine
- An enquiry from Rio de Janeiro
- An expedition to the tropics
- A Portuguese fairy-tale prince?
- Family life in Rio de Janeiro
- The English governess: Maria Graham
- January 9, 1822: Fico – I am staying
- 2nd September 1822 – Brazil becomes an independent empire
- A masterpiece of diplomacy
- Leopoldina – a Brazilian patriot
- Mission accomplished...
- Emperor Franz II/I and Napoleon
- Marie Louise – a childhood spent in the shadows of world politics
- Napoleon at Schönbrunn Palace
- Marie Louise and the Duke of Reichstadt
- Habsburg occupation of the royal throne
- The posthumous prince and his guardian
- A weak yet tenacious emperor: Frederick III
- Fraternal strife: Emperor Frederick III versus Duke Albrecht VI
- The Hungarians are coming: Emperor Frederick III versus Matthias Corvinus
- The reuniting of the Habsburg lands: Maximilian I
- Frederick of the Empty Pockets and the Tyroleans
- Napoleon seeks a wife
- Napoleon and Marie Louise: Courtship and wedding in Vienna
- The handover of the bride
- First meeting and wedding in Paris
- The Court Linen Room
- The Feast of St Nicholas
- Christmas down the ages
- O Christmas Tree – the Habsburgs and the Christmas tree
- Christmas in the imperial family
- A year at Court – the Court Calendar
- The 'first tier' of society - social interaction in the aristocracy
- An all too closed society
- Following in Sisi’s footsteps: the imperial park at Bad Ischl
- The emperor on his summer retreat: the imperial villa at Ischl
- The problem of the succession
- Franz Joseph and Franz Ferdinand – a tense relationship
- Karl – the unexpected crown prince
- Charles V and the vision of universal monarchy
- A very special Christmas concert: Joseph Haydn and the Russian grand duchess
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