Maria Theresa: Empress – The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment - Richard Bassett

A major new biography of Maria Theresa, the formidable Habsburg Empress  Maria Theresa was the single most powerful woman in eighteenth-century Europe. At the age of just twenty-three she succeeded to the Habsburg domains only to find them contested by almost every power in Europe. Over the next forty years, she became a fierce leader and opponent, as well as a devoted wife and mother to sixteen children.  In this engrossing biography, Richard Bassett traces Maria Theresa’s life and complex legacy.... Zobrazit více