![]() Beginning in the Middle Ages, the Habsburgs expanded from Swabia across southern Germany to Austria through forgery and good fortune. In The Habsburgs, historian Martyn Rady tells the epic story of the Habsburg dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium, placing it in its European and global contexts. But in 1918, at the end of the Great War, the final remnant of their empire was gone. By the mid-fifteenth century, the Habsburgs controlled of the Holy Roman Empire, and by the early sixteenth century, their lands stretched across the continent and far beyond it. From modest origins as minor German nobles, the family used fabricated documents, invented genealogies, savvy marriages, and military conquest on their improbable ascent, becoming the continent’s most powerful dynasty. ![]() Habsburgs ruled much of Europe for centuries. ![]() The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries - from their rise to power to their eventual downfall. ![]()
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