Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" On the occasion of the 300th birthday of Empress Maria Theresa (1717-1780), many clichés about one of the most powerful women in history need to be ...

On Dec. 13, 1740, the Prussian king Frederick II slipped out of a masquerade ball and mounted his horse at the head of 27,000 well-drilled troops. Three days later, he crossed the frontier into ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Caroline Weber IN THE SHADOW OF THE EMPRESS The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie ...

Historian Goldstone (Daughters of the Winter Queen) recounts in this fascinating saga the personalities and power struggles of Maria Theresa, ruler of the Habsburg Empire, and three of her daughters, ...

A STATUE of Empress Maria Theresa stood in what is now Ľudovít Štúr Square in Bratislava for more than 20 years before it was destroyed in 1921. But an initiative undertaken by Bratislavský ...

A scarce pamphlet I came across this week, printed in Prague in 1767, contains a rather unusual prayer, written and led by the Noda B’Yehuda, R. Yechezkel Landau. The prayer was for the recovery of ...

THE SEARCH on Monday, April 8 for the remnants of a statue of Empress Maria Theresa proved unsuccessful. The results of the underwater archaeology research were presented a day later by Attila Tóth at ...

On the occasion of the 300th birthday of Empress Maria Theresa (1717-1780), many clichés about one of the most powerful women in history need to be abandoned according to the latest research. “Maria ...