Restauration et Réforme: La maison d’Autriche et les évolutions pré-modernes d’un projet politique médiéval
Restauration and Reform: The House of Austria and the Pre-Modern Evolution of a Medieval Political Project

Summary/Abstract: The importance of the Habsburg Monarchy for the European balance of power in the modern age and equally for the development of national identities in Eastern Europe justifies the interest for the medieval preliminaries of the House of Austria’s presence in this region. The translation of territorial base operated in 1278 by Rudolf I, Holy Roman emperor, was consolidated by his successors through political achievements and matrimonial alliances. The reign of Ferdinand I in the Austrian Lands and his election as king of Bohemia and Hungary mean the beginning of a mix of policies of building an institutional infrastructure which assured the dialogue between power and the legal society which preserved the local specificities in the former apostolical kingdoms.

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