Belknap/Harvard University Press, $35.00, 592 pages Visitors to present-day Vienna sometimes feel as if they have wandered into a vast, open-air museum, or perhaps a particularly well-managed theme ...
Anthony Alofsin observes that his controlling metaphor in When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language in the Hapsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, 1867-1933 (University of Chicago Press), has a long ...
WARSAW — Four elderly members of the aristocratic Hapsburg family, which for more than six centuries ruled Austria and then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, would like some beer--lots of it. More ...
Stephen Crittenden: Welcome to the programme. SINGING: Mahler's Symphony No.4 Stephen Crittenden: The final movement of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 4, a vision of heaven through the eyes of a child, ...
The Hapsburg dynasty, one of the most influential and celebrated in Europe was driven to extinction because of inbreeding, say researchers. The kings who ruled Spain and its empire from 1516 for ...
EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN II By Paula Sutter Fichtner Yale University Press, $30, 344 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY BRIDGET HEAL “By virtually all standards, including his own, Emperor Maximilian II (1527-1576) ...
Otto von Hapsburg, whose family ruled the Austro-Hungarian Empire since the 13th century and one point most of the European continent, died Monday at age 98. Hapsburg was born in 1912 in Reichenau, ...
Few Early Music groups have become as integral a part of the performance landscape as Stile Antico. The British chorus's concerts and recordings have earned plaudits around the world, including Grammy ...