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The Old Courthouse of Gladenbach Auf dem Stadtplatz: Essays on the Intersection of German Public Life and Culture for the international Audience by Annalouisa Sullivan "Vom Alexander bis Franziska" Few elements of the German legal tradition are as intensely beloved by that country's people...

Very sorry for the extended delay in posting new updates. I've now reviewed the timeline and am ready to start writing again. Thanks for your patience.

From all the way back in Post #127: "As one might expect, no statute in Germany has been so frequently contested, amended, or litigated as the tax. Thus over the centuries, "voting about voting" has become a byword for German fractiousness. Presently, the tax is statutorily limited to no more...

The Anteroom. In the study of German politics, the anteroom (or Vorraum) denotes a complicated set of relationships having to do with the ever-evolving rules governing who is allowed and not allowed to vote, most especially the influence those not allowed to vote exert in the democratic process...

The Paulinerkirche of Leipzig, where in March 1578 the Estates General of Saxony, the body into which would develop the present Estates General of the German Empire, met for the first time. German Constitutional Democracy: Its Origins and Contexts by Uwe Mentzer The same theatricality and...

Prefatory Note V: The Saxon Estates in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries In the late fourteenth century the margraves of Meissen frequently needed to approach their subjects for financial assistance, and to this purpose requested funds from the Estates. Towns were soon subject to a fixed...

I don't boast the most detailed knowledge of Polish history, but I thought during the Time of Troubles Sigismund Vasa's son was elected tsar, with some Russian support, and that the ultimate reason for Russian resistance were fears the Poles were going to convert the whole country to Roman...

I don't know nearly enough about German rhetoric in the sixteenth century, but one of the few practical uses of my graduate coursework in English literature is that I read enough primary sources in various genres to have a sense of how prose in these contexts would be crafted, how the syntax...

Dearest and Most Wholly Beloved Subjects: WE Confess when We requested from Your Honorable Selves the Loan to Make Right the Parlous State of our Country, We Expected that You Might Answer Yes, or No, but not a List, Such as Which We Did Receive from You, or that this List would apparently...

Well, I actually really want to reduce the wild butterfly part of the proceedings that generate effects too early too far afield. We may see some effects of these events in Europe significant enough that they could affect China maybe in the latter half of the seventeenth century, but I don't...

I actually couldn't read that without imagining those as Maria Eleonora's words, as she batters him with one her free arm while she holds his heir in the other.

Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, by Adrian de Vries Sigismunda Killinger, Lecture Record, March 1, 1999 Charpentier-Synthtranslate Edition. DR. KILLINGER: [Written on the smartslate behind her:] "Kill them all, and save yourself" The Wartburg was an odd place for Alexander's court to be holed...

To His Most Serene Highness, ALEXANDER, Archmarshal of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, Elector, Duke of Saxony, Landgrave of Thuringia, Margrave of Meissen, Burgrave of Magdeburg, Prince Defender Supreme of the Original and True Christian Church as Revived and Preserved by MARTIN...

Well, everything up until around 250 years ago is still going to be pretty rough. And as to how we get that particular monarch, it's going to be a fun, and eventful, story. "Well, the old man won't be around for too much longer. And as to the girl, she seems tractable enough." "Wait, is that...

Francis Pourbus, Merry Company Clarence Kee, Lecture, September 27, 2006 So, our subject matter today requires me to deal first with a bit of imperial statecraft, then Saxon economic history, and finally, Saxon political history. In short, we are not going to be staying in any one lane today...

A Wettin Family Tree: The House of the Elector Alexander and the Three Johannine Dukes, 1574

Elisabeth of the Palatinate, Duchess of Saxony, wife of Johann Friedrich II, at their monument in the Moritzkirche in Coburg, as Elisabeth of the Palatinate, Duchess of Saxony, wife Johann Georg, at her monument in the Neustadtkirche in Wittenberg. Greta Saperstein, "The Wars Within" On the...

Jean Roque, Map of the Kingdom of Ireland, 1794 Seven Surprising Facts About the Kingdom of Ireland 1. Did you know that Ireland and England have the same head of state? From its foundation in 1542, the Kingdom of Ireland has had the same monarch as the Kingdom of England. However, it reveals...

Okay, so presently I am going through the timeline and inserting threadmarks. Should be finished by tomorrow or so.

Well, remember, the Boers didn't come directly from the Netherlands. Many were already in the Cape Colony and then just emigrated from there in wagons. For a country whose people don't already have an adjacent colony but coming straight from Europe, the situation is more complicated. First, you...