More than half of Europe was ruled by the House of Habsburg in the 16th century, with Charles V presiding over the Holy Roman Empire, a realm of almost four million square kilometres. The dynasty ...

The Habsburg’s kiss-and-conquer land-grab began with Emperor Maximilian I (1459–1519), who was dubbed “the last knight” and through his marriage to Mary of Burgundy (1457–1482) would ...

Look at a map of Europe between the 13th and 17th centuries and you see Habsburg territory spread, glacially slow but relentless, until a vast proportion of the continent was covered.

The university was founded in 1457 by the Habsburg dynasty as the second university in Austrian-Habsburg territory after the University of Vienna.

In late October, the emperor Charles VI had died without a male heir, leaving the chaotic jumble of territories that made up the Habsburg patrimony to his 23-year-old daughter, Maria Theresa.

John F. Ross: How the West was lost It is not incidental that the Habsburg Empire, a once-grand and wide-reaching imperial state that unraveled in 1918, employed these pioneering researchers.

As the Habsburg–Ottoman border in the Balkans grew after 1700, Vienna's customs and diplomatic officials encountered speakers not only of Turkish but of several other languages too.

Prussia seized Habsburg territory in Silesia (today mainly in southern Poland), but the Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa summoned a defensive force, and her dominion survived, although she lost most ...

The Austrian Studies Association (formerly the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association, MALCA) continues traditions started in 1961, as the only North American association devoted to ...

The Austrian Studies Association (formerly the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association, MALCA) continues traditions started in 1961, as the only North American association devoted to ...