13. The Queen of Peace

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. A Note on Structure and Titles x
4. Acknowledgements xii
5. Map of Austria in 1740 xv
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I The Crisis
8. 1. The May Child 11
9. 2. The Struggle for the Inheritance 23
10. 3. The Hungarian Concordat 35
11. 4. The Turning of the Tide 44
12. 5. The Prussian Recovery 55
13. Part II The Achievement
14. 6. The Age of Reform I: The New Men 65
15. 7. The Age of Reform II: Religion and Education 88
16. 8. Enter Kaunitz 93
17. 9. The Grand Renversement 106
18. 10. Mater Castrorum 113
19. 11. Austria Resurgent 121
20. 12. The Humbling of Frederick 131
21. 13. The Queen of Peace 139
22. 14. The Austrian Enlightenment 149
23. 15. The Great Suppression: Educational Upheaval 164
24. 16. Physical Well-Being: The Arrival of a Public Health System 172
25. 17. The King of the Romans 176
26. 18. The Terrible ‘Betrayal’: The First Partition of Poland 184
27. 19. Bayonets and Potatoes: The Bavarian Succession Crisis 191
28. 20. Kaiserin, Wittib: The Mourning Empress and the Struggle for Constancy 202
29. Part III (i) The Legacy: Politics and Trade
30. 21. The Mother (I): The Daughters 215
31. 22. The Mother (II): The Sons 248
32. 23. Joseph and Josephinism 259
33. 24. Stocks, Subsidies and Free Trade: The World of Theresian Finance 269
34. 25. Trieste and the Renewal of a Global Presence 273
35. 26. Maria Theresa’s Italian Inheritance: Lombardy 279
36. 27. Challenge and Salvation: Hungary 286
37. 28. Jewel in the Crown: The Austrian Lowlands 290
38. 29. Pandours and Lighthouses: Theresian Croatia 302
39. 30. Twixt Cross and Crescent: The Military Frontier 307
40. 31. Galicia and Lodomeria 314
41. 32. Austria-Bohemia: Consolidating the Austrian Heartlands 318
42. 33. Looking West: The Failure of the French Intellectual Connection 327
43. 34. The Borders of Intolerance: Maria Theresa and the Jews 331
44. Part III (ii) The Legacy: Culture and Piety
45. 35. The Artistic Parnassus: Vienna 343
46. 36. Wills and Laws: Milde und Munifizenz 352
47. 37. Music and Drama: A Subversive Universe 359
48. 38. Maria Theresa and Tyrol 369
49. 39. Porzellan and Augarten 372
50. 40. The Art of the Pittor Turco: Jean-Étienne Liotard’s Visits to Vienna 376
51. 41. Pietas Theresiana 381
52. 42. Theresian (Keynesian) Monetary Policy: The Austrian ‘Dollar’ 386
53. 43. The ‘Silver Rose’: Theresian Nostalgia 390
54. 44. Courage and Honour: The Maria Theresa Order 394
55. 45. The Zuckerkönigin: Rococo Delights 398
56. 46. Femininity and Feminism: Maria Theresa as Landesmutter 404
57. 47. Triumph of the Modern: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt 410
58. 48. The War on Superstition 415
59. 49. The Secret World: Postlogen and Geheimziffern 425
60. 50. Recalibrating Austria’s Eastern Flank: Maria Theresa and the Ottomans 430
61. Conclusion: The Enlightenment Empress 436
62. Timeline of Events 444
63. Habsburg Family Tree 446
64. Endnotes 447
65. Select Bibliography 467
66. List of Illustrations 480
67. Index 482