in Austrian Tradition: Problems of an Imperial and Paternalistic Ideology',
Viator, 3 (1972), 433–62.
Len Scales, The Shaping of German Identity: Authority and Crisis, 1245–1414 (Cambridge, 2012).
Andrew Wheatcroft, The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire (London, 1995), 39–68.
4. Фридрих III: Сатурн и Марс
F. R. H. Du Boulay, Germany in the Later Middle Ages (London, 1983).
Frances Courtney Kneupper, The Empire at the End of Time: Identity and Reform in Late Medieval German Prophecy (Oxford, 2016).
Peter Moraw, 'The Court of the German King and of the Emperor at the End of the Middle Ages, 1440–1519', in Princes, Patronage and the Nobility: The Court at the Beginning of the Modern Age c. 1450–1650, ed. Ronald G. Asch and Adolf M. Birks (Oxford, 1991), 103–37.
Gerald Strauss, Manifestations of Discontent in Germany on the Eve of the Reformation (Bloomington, IN, and London, 1971).
Richard Vaughan, Charles the Bold: The Last Valois Duke of Burgundy (London, 1973).
5. Максимилиан и цветные короли
Giulia Bartrum, Dürer (London, 2007).
Gerhard Benecke, Maximilian I (1459–1519): An Analytical Biography (London, 1982).
Darin Hayton, The Crown and the Cosmos: Astrology and the Politics of Maximilian I (Pittsburgh, 2015).
Harald Kleinschmidt, Ruling the Waves: Emperor Maximilian I, the search for islands and the transformation of the European world picture c. 1500 (Utrecht, 2008).
Larry Silver, Marketing Maximilian: The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor (Princeton, NJ, 2008).
6. Карл V: повелитель мира
Rebecca Ard Boone, Mercurino di Gattinara and the Creation of the Spanish Empire (London, 2014).
Karl Brandi, The Emperor Charles V (London, 1939).
John M. Headley, The Emperor and His Chancellor: A Study of the Imperial Chancellery Under Gattinara (Cambridge, 1983).
William Maltby, The Reign of Charles V (Basingstoke and New York, 2002).
Martyn Rady, The Emperor Charles V (London and New York, 1988).
Hugh Thomas, The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V (London, 2010).
7. Венгрия, Чехия и протестантская угроза
Kenneth J. Dillon, King and Estates in the Bohemian Lands 1526–1564 (Brussels, 1976).
Paula S. Fichtner, Ferdinand I of Austria: The Politics of Dynasticism in the Age of the Reformation (Boulder, CO, and New York, 1982).
Howard Louthan, The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna (Cambridge, 1997).
Karin J. MacHardy, War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria: The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Political Interaction, 1521–1622 (Basingstoke and New York, 2003).
Orsolya Réthelyi, Mary of Hungary: The Queen and Her Court, 1521–1531 (Budapest, 2005).
8. Филипп II: Новый Свет, религиозные распри и королевский инцест
Henry Kamen, The Escorial: Art and Power in the Renaissance (New Haven and London, 2010).
Henry Kamen, Philip of Spain (New Haven and New York, 1997).
Geoffrey Parker, The Dutch Revolt (Harmondsworth, 1985).
Geoffrey Parker, Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II (New Haven and London, 2014).
Hugh Thomas, World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II (London, 2014).
9. Дон Хуан и галеры Лепанто
Jack Beeching, The Galleys at Lepanto (New York, 1983).
Gigi Beutler, The Imperial Vaults of the PP Capuchins in Vienna (Capuchin Crypt) (Vienna, 2003).
Niccolò Capponi, Victory of the West: The Story of the Battle of Lepanto (London, 2006).
Estella Weiss-Krejci, 'Restless Corpses: "Secondary Burial" in the Babenberg and Habsburg dynasties', Antiquity, 75 (2001), 769–80.
Margaret Yeo, Don John of Austria (London, 1934).
10. Рудольф II и пражские алхимики
R. J. W. Evans, Rudolf II and His World: A Study in Intellectual History, 1576–1612 (Oxford, 1973).
Paula Sutter Fichtner, Emperor Maximilian II (New Haven, CT, and London, 2001).
Peter French, John Dee (London, 1987).
Peter Marshall, The Theatre of the World: Alchemy, Astrology and Magic in Renaissance Prague (London, 2006).
Sally Metzler, Bartholomeus Spranger: Splendor and Eroticism in Imperial Prague (New York, 2014).
11. Торжество еретиков
A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe, ed. Howard Louthan and Graeme Murdock (Boston, 2015).
Ferdinand II: 450 Years Sovereign Ruler of Tyrol, ed. Sabine Haag and Veronika Sandbichler (Vienna, 2017).
Valentine Penrose, The Bloody Countess: Atrocities of Erzsebet Bathory (London, 1970).
Regina Pörtner, The CounterReformation in Central Europe: Styria 1580–1630 (Oxford, 2001).
Martyn Rady, 'Bocskai, Rebellion and Resistance in Early Modern Hungary', in Resistance, Rebellion and Revolution in Hungary and Central Europe, ed. László Péter and Rady (London, 2008), 57–66.
12. Фердинанд II, Святая хижина и Чехия
Robert Bireley, Ferdinand II, CounterReformation Emperor, 1578–1637 (Cambridge, 2014).
Bohdan Chudoba, Spain and the Empire 1519–1643 (Chicago, 1952).
Geoff Mortimer, The Origins of the Thirty Years War and the Revolt in Bohemia, 1618 (Basingstoke and New York, 2015).
Jaroslav Pánek et al., A History of the Czech Lands (Prague, 2009).
Brennan C. Pursell, The Winter King: Frederick V of the Palatinate and the Coming of the Thirty Years' War (Aldershot and Burlington, VT, 2003).
13. Тридцатилетняя «мировая война»
The Ashgate Research Companion to the Thirty Years' War, ed. Olaf Asbach and Peter Schröder (London and New York, 2014).
Robert Bireley, Ferdinand II, CounterReformation Emperor, 1578–1637 (Cambridge, 2014).
Geoff Mortimer, Wallenstein: The Enigma of the Thirty Years War (Basingstoke and New York, 2010).
Geoffrey Parker, Thirty Years' War (London and New York, 1984).
Peter H. Wilson, The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy (Cambridge, MA, 2011).
14. Ненормальная империя и битва за Вену
Maria Goloubeva, The Glorification of Emperor Leopold I in Image, Spectacle and Text (Mainz, 2000).
Irina Marin, Contested Frontiers in the Balkans: Habsburg and Ottoman Rivalries in Eastern Europe (London and New York, 2013).
John P. Spielman, Leopold I of Austria (London, 1977).
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, The Emperor's Old Clothes: Constitutional History and the Symbolic Language of the Holy Roman Empire (New York and Oxford, 2008).
John Stoye, The Siege of Vienna (London, 1964).
Andrew Wheatcroft, The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe (London, 2009).
15. Невидимые испанские монархи и смерть околдованного короля
Alejandro Cañeque, The King's Living Image: The Culture and Politics of Viceregal Power in Colonial Mexico (New York and London, 2004).
J. H. Elliott, The CountDuke of Olivares: The Statesman in an Age of Decline (New Haven and London, 1986).
Festival Culture in the World of the Spanish Habsburgs, ed. Fernando Checa Cremades and Laura Fernández-González (London and New