Maximilian I spent his reign marrying, fighting and negotiating his family into a European power, and this study traces how: the Burgundian inheritance, the wars in Italy, the troubled imperial reforms, and the Treaty of Vienna that bound Hungary and Bohemia to the Habsburgs through a double betrothal. It won the Stanhope Historical Essay prize at Oxford in 1901 and is illustrated with contemporary portraits.
The first book of R. W. Seton-Watson, later the great British historian of Central Europe, and a compact life of a fascinating emperor. Download the free EPUB.