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Tag: Austria-Hungary

Projects

7 November 2022

The nobility as an economic force in the Habsburg Empire

Pomp and pageantry: when we think of the nobility in the Habsburg Monarchy, we usually think of them as spending lavishly. But where did the money for all the pomp and splendour actually come from? The historian Veronika Hyden-Hanscho is investigating the sources of income and the entrepreneurial activities of the nobility from the 17th […] Continue reading “The nobility as an economic force in the Habsburg Empire”

Projects

19 February 2018

Silent witnesses of a world war

Between 1914 and 1918, around 1,500 films were produced in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy – a far greater number than previously assumed. Many of them were produced to entertain and not for war propaganda purposes. A comprehensive filmography now provides an unparalleled empirical basis and unravels some of the myths. Continue reading “Silent witnesses of a world war”

Projects

6 November 2017

Linguistic strife in times of war

Eleven regimental languages and countless dialects: the Habsburg army was a Babel of languages. In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, the historian Tamara Scheer explored how the Emperor, the army, soldiers and the military bureaucracy coped with this linguistic diversity. Her conclusion: in an imaginative and flexible way. Continue reading “Linguistic strife in times of war”

Projects

9 October 2017

Women’s voices against prejudice under the monarchy

They were born in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, migrated, wrote manifold texts going against the grain of mainstream society in the 19th and early 20th centuries and have been widely ignored by literary history: with the support of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, the German studies scholar Alexandra Millner researched migrant women writers and assembled them […] Continue reading “Women’s voices against prejudice under the monarchy”

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