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“... In early 18th-century​ Christian Europe, only Peter the Great ruled a larger territory than Augustus the Strong. As Elector Frederick Augustus I of Saxony in 1694 and King Augustus II of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1697, he reigned from the German heartland on the Elbe and the cities of Dresden and Leipzig deep into what is now Belarus and Ukraine ...”

“... also egging Mary on with her programme to reconvert England to Catholicism and stamp out heresy. Martyn Rady, in his irresistible history of the Habsburgs, accepts the calculation that during his four years as sort-of-king, Philip was at least complicit in the ritual murder of almost three hundred Protestants – one of the most intense episodes of ...”