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The Charmed Circle: Joseph II and the Five Princesses, 1765-1790 (Central European Studies)
Rebecca Gates-Coon
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Description for The Charmed Circle: Joseph II and the Five Princesses, 1765-1790 (Central European Studies)
Paperback. Drawing on original correspondence, this book sheds new light on the influential role played by five Habsburg princesses during the reforming reign of Joseph II. It also provides a vivid picture of aristocratic life in eighteenth-century Europe. Num Pages: 378 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFA; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
In late eighteenth-century Vienna a remarkable coterie of five aristocratic women, popularly known as the “five princesses,” achieved social preeminence and acclaim as close associates of the reforming Habsburg Emperor Joseph II. They were Princess Maria Josepha Clary (1728–1801); Princess Maria Sidonia Kinsky (1729–1815); Princess Maria Leopoldine Liechtenstein (1733–1809); Countess, subsequently Princess, Maria Leopoldine Kaunitz (1741–1795); and Princess Maria Eleonore Liechtenstein (1745–1812).
The group assumed a stable form by 1772, by which time Joseph II and two of his closest male associates, Field Marshal Franz Moritz Lacy and Count Franz Xavier Orsini-Rosenberg, had become accepted members of the circle ... Read more
In late eighteenth-century Vienna a remarkable coterie of five aristocratic women, popularly known as the “five princesses,” achieved social preeminence and acclaim as close associates of the reforming Habsburg Emperor Joseph II. They were Princess Maria Josepha Clary (1728–1801); Princess Maria Sidonia Kinsky (1729–1815); Princess Maria Leopoldine Liechtenstein (1733–1809); Countess, subsequently Princess, Maria Leopoldine Kaunitz (1741–1795); and Princess Maria Eleonore Liechtenstein (1745–1812).
The group assumed a stable form by 1772, by which time Joseph II and two of his closest male associates, Field Marshal Franz Moritz Lacy and Count Franz Xavier Orsini-Rosenberg, had become accepted members of the circle ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
Series
Central European Studies
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
West Lafayette, United States
ISBN
9781557536945
SKU
V9781557536945
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Ref
99-15
About Rebecca Gates-Coon
Rebecca Gates-Coon is a senior reference specialist in the Social Sciences and Humanities Division of the Library of Congress. She holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and lives in Montgomery County, Maryland. She also is author of The Landed Estates of the Esterhàzy Princes: Hungary during the Reforms of Maria Theresia and Joseph II (1994).
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