The Catholic Historical Review, July 1st, 2002
Emperor Maximilian II. By Paula Sutter Fichtner (New Haven: Yale University Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 344. $35.00.)
Paula Sutter Fichtner has followed up her biography, Ferdinand I of Austria (Boulder, Colorado: East European Monographs, 1982), Holy Roman Emperor from 1556 to 1654, with this careful, insightful, and elegantly written study of his son and successor, the often enigmatic Habsburg, Maximilian II, emperor from 1564 to 1576. Along with most historians, she judges him to have been, overall, a failure but also one whose inadequacies can teach us much about the intractable institutional, ...
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