Joseph’s children followed behind the new heir presumptive. 23 years later, in 1743, Maria Theresa would be crowned Empress; an event where she was noted by a British diplomat as ‘most attractive’ ...

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Who was Empress Maria Theresa of the Holy Roman Empire, the matriarch who was a mother to sixteen children and who ruled for 40 years? An anomaly among 18th century European sovereignty, Maria Theresa ...

The role of personality and charm in running a state is one theme of Richard Bassett’s superb book, the first English biography of the Empress Maria Theresa since Edward Crankshaw’s in 1969. The ...

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An equally important blow was struck by an Italian mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi in the 18th century. Agnesi was the first woman to write a mathematics textbook and to be appointed to a ...

Agnesi dedicated the “Basic Principles” to Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, who acknowledged the favor with a letter of thanks and a diamond-bearing box and ring. Pope Benedict XIV praised ...

Originally built as a hunting lodge, the palace was transformed in the 18th century under Empress Maria Theresa, who expanded and decorated it into the grand Baroque and Rococco masterpiece it is ...

The life of Maria Theresa provides a fascinating case study of female supremacy ... yet Bassett is determined to describe its dawning in tandem with the empress’s life. Indeed, only about half the ...

In response, Empress Maria Theresa stripped him of his noble title and exiled him from Hungary, forcing him to flee to Poland. There, he found not just refuge but also a new purpose—joining the ...