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The charmed circle : Joseph II and the "five princesses," 1765-1790 / Rebecca Gates-Coon.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gates-Coon, Rebecca, author.
- Series:
- Central European studies.
- Central European Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Princesses--Austria--Vienna--Biography.
- Princesses--Austria--Vienna--Correspondence.
- Women--Austria--Vienna--Correspondence.
- Aristocracy (Social class)--Austria--Vienna--History--18th century.
- Austria--Court and courtiers--Biography.
- Vienna (Austria)--Social life and customs--18th century.
- Austria--History--1740-1789.
- Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790. 60000.
- Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790--Friends and associates.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (379 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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; Princess Maria Sidonia Kinsky; Princess Maria Leopoldine Liechtenstein; Countess, subsequently Princess, Maria Leopoldine Kaunitz; and Princess Maria Eleonore Liechtenstein. During the Viennese social season, members of the group made their way several times each week to the inner city palace of one of the 'Dames,' as members of the group called themselves. Through analysis of the correspondence of these women and of the published and unpublished commentaries of their contemporaries, this study scrutinizes the activities of this select group of women during the co-regency period (1765-1780) when Joseph shared responsibility with his mother, Maria Theresia, and during Joseph's decade as sole ruler (1780-1790) after Maria Theresia's death--years during which the women enjoyed their special position"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Aristocrats : Ancestry and Posterity
- Court and Society
- Origins of la societe
- 1765-1780 : the Damenkreis during the Coregency
- 1780-1790 : Politics under Joseph II's Sole Rulership
- Joseph II's Foreign Policy and the End of an Era.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781612493701
- 161249370X
- 9781612493695
- 1612493696
- OCLC:
- 908260872
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