Both wish to rule
Catriona Seth: Empress Maria Theresa, 3 November 2022
Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time
by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, translated by Robert Savage.
Princeton, 1045 pp., £35, March,978 0 691 17906 3 Show More
by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, translated by Robert Savage.
Princeton, 1045 pp., £35, March,
“... affairs, nor to inform me about them.’ Most regimes set greater store by male heirs, but as Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger points out in her study of Maria Theresa, female rulers weren’t unusual. The difficulty for Charles VI was that the Habsburgs were not only kings of Hungary and Bohemia, rulers of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia, princes of ... ”
