Belknap/Harvard University Press, $35.00, 592 pages Visitors to present-day Vienna sometimes feel as if they have wandered into a vast, open-air museum, or perhaps a particularly well-managed theme ...

A legendary jewel of the Hapsburg dynasty — not seen since 1919 and thought lost, stolen or recut — has actually been safe in ...

On this episode of American Prestige, Natasha Wheatley on the transformation of the Habsburg Empire from a multinational collection of polities to discrete nation-states. Derek Davison and Daniel ...

There’s a certain allure surrounding diamonds lost to history, if not only for their beauty and value, for the mystery and ...

Recent reports indicate that a collection of jewels associated with Empress Sissi of Austria and Zita of Bourbon-Parma, the ...

Making five centuries of Habsburg history fun seems like a tall order, but Winder pulls it off. He entertains because he is entertained. His sprawling history of a dynastic empire that began in the ...

If you were to travel to the early 1800s and strike up a conversation with a European scientist about climate, they would begin by asking why you hadn’t read your Aristotle. First sketched by the ...

Full disclosure: I ate their lunch, and so I’m guilty as charged if accused of biting the hand that fed me. Or maybe “snapping at” would be a better term, since I don’t expect to tear flesh or draw ...