Canadian Journal of History, August 1st, 2003
by Paula Sutter Fichtner. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2001. xii, 344 pp. $45.00 US (cloth).
Almost two decades ago Professor Fichtner gave us the standard biography in English of the Habsburg emperor, Ferdinand 1. She has now written a sequel in the form of a biography of Ferdinand's son and successor, Maximilian II, who ruled as emperor from 1564 to 1576. One realizes that this project was not lightly undertaken. The lure of Maximilian is hardly irresistible. Fichtner opens her account with the admission that by virtually all standards he was a failure. At the end of her b...
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