Thank you, especially about the believability of the basic outline. As to the saga of Austria, it's going to be a whole arc lasting the rest of the seventeenth century. In some ways is plays with the same basic questions as the history of our own process of German unification. Specifically, what...
It's very similar to the situation in the US, where in the senate a small state like Wyoming gets the same representation as New York or California. And though its' been a while since I've read on this issue and may be mistaken, I believe Spain, post-Franco, has some kind of constitutional...
And this is how it all fits together. We've had discussions of the footprint of the contemporary alt-Germany before, but essentially, it's 1871 in the west, 1919 in the east. And yes, how Silesia and Lusatia but not Moravia and Bohemia are part of the empire will be, eventually, a whole thing...
From A Guide to the German Political Process for Prospective Investors, Managers and Immigrants, 2022 Edition.
As the following maps demonstrate, the New Realm brought with it a radical simplification and rationalization of Germany's internal borders. While it would be a mistake to think that...
Christian IV of Denmark, by Peter Isaacsz
King Christian's Reach, by Maurice Starling
from Chapter V: The Land of Every Man for Himself
Communications among the major European houses in the winter of 1620-1 was frantic, as dispatches updating the locations, possessions and conditions of...
Pictured: Saxony, including the appended realms and the remaining possessions of the Juelich-Mark-Kleve inheritance at the end of 1620, is forest-green. The Bohemian Confederacy is light-green. Austrian Habsburg lands are yellow. Ecclestiastical lands of the Holy Roman Empire, most of which are...
St. Barbara's Church, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic. Designed partly by Peter Parler, like St. Vitus in Prague, the square peaked roofs here represents a traditional Bohemian derivation of gothic design which was present in the structures in Prague Castle before the 1541 fire. In the work on St...
GILLESPIE'S STUDY GUIDES FOR INTRODUCTORY UNIVERSITY COURSES
THE FIRST GENERAL WAR:
THE MAJOR AND MINOR POWERS CHOOSE SIDES
Lucky McGee
A complete diplomatic history of the beginning of the First General War in any kind of abbreviated overview is just about impossible. Virtually every power...
So originally that post was going to be a wider survey of sites in Prague, similar to the one we had about the English immigrants in Wittenberg forever ago. But then I went off on that one statue and realized that as one post this could literally go on forever, and take forever to do. So the...
Portrait of Louis XIV, by Lorenzo Bernini, at Versailles. This would be the model for Schauberger's Amazon.
Wrestling Titans by Ignac Platzer, in the First Courtyard of Prague Castle. While the gate and background structures would be different, the Amazon would be placed at the center, facing...
Thank you so much! I think the first time I was developing the bare bones of the alternate history was 2008. And while there are still some very basic questions I still don't have a good answer for (like, if you're going to do a story about an early German unification under the 17th century...
Just as an aside outside the fourth wall of the timeline, one of the inspirations and guiding concerns for the previous installment was my reading about how in many of the crucial early battles of the Bohemian revolt Frederick of the Palatinate's armies would simply melt away, often on account...
Hans Ulrich Franck, The Armored Rider (1643)
These Noble Affairs of War, from the Killinger Lectures
Adam Klein
We need to begin by way of the narrative history of Christian's accession to the Bohemian throne. In the process, I will try to keep us from getting too many rose petals in our hair...
Military Scene, by Hans Ulrich Franck, 1656
These Noble Affairs of War, from the Killinger Lectures
Adam Klein
In David Haller's memorable words, "if Saxony had a state religion at the death of the Elector Alexander, it was double-entry accounting." Perhaps that's an overstatement, but not by...