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Book Two ✅

Book One ✅
Very dense & slow but carried by Oskar, a lil entertainment rascal. The days leading up to the Nazi uprising in Germany is haunting

Kindle broke down lmao

CHAPTER 7
- Christianity vs Greco-Romano aesthetics
- Premature death of reckless Joseph I, his brother took over as Charles VI
- Charles's existence orbitedby 2failedwills
- 1st will : Carlos II, last SpanishHabsburgs. His sisters marry Louis XIV & Leopold I. Carlos's achievement is stay alive. Split territory.
- 2nd will: Louis XVI secret deal Bavaria.
- Charles - PragmaticSanction - female inheritance -Maria

CHAPTER 7
- Christianity vs Greco-Romano aesthetics
- HGW tend to seem thesmelves as Jupiter/Hercules
- Joseph I, the least Habsburg emperor, hedonistic
- Premature death of Joseph I, his brother took over as Charles VI
- Charles's existence orbited by two failed wills
- 1st will : Carlos II, the last Spanish Habsburgs. His two sisters marry Louis XIV & Leopold I, insect health shenanigans. Carlos's achievement is

Chapter 3 : Revelatiom ✅

Chapter II : Complication ✅

Chapter 1: Ambition ✅

Chapter 6 ✅

- Dec 1666, marriage between Emperor Leopold I & Margarita Teresa, Spanish. Mariage between last two functioning Habsburg
- Great advantage of Habsburg is short supply chain within it's territory
- Leopold I is raised for priesthood
- A join coalition between Holy Roman Empire (under Leopold I) and multiple Euro powers expel Ottoman from Europe (Buda) in largest cavalry charge in history

Chapter 5 ✅
Rudolf/Mathias had no children, succeed by cousin Ferdinand of Styria
- Emperor Ferdinand II is a zealous Catholic
- Catholic vs Protestant
- End of Bohemia's sovereignty
- Czech was undermined in favor of German
- Thirty Years War
- Tradition of Emperors - financial recklessness & grand gesture to signal his power
- Hunting as aristocratic pasttime, but only performative
- Jesuit movement & belief

Chapter 5 ✅
- Rudolf/Mathias had no children, succeed by cousin Ferdinand of Styria
- Emperor Ferdinand II is a zealous Catholic
- Catholic vs Protestant
- Czech was undermined
- Thirty Years War
- Jesuit movement & belief

Part 1 ✅ Humbert Humbert you sickfuck

Chapter 4 ✅

- glimpse of the Ottoman influence
- eccentricities of King Rudolph II
- collector of exotic fauna & rocks
- Prague as a center of mystery and intrigue in the 16th century
-town of Viscri

Chapter 4 & 5 ✅

Chapter 3 ✅

Chapter 3: Charles V's & Ferdinand I reign + Max I's early years + bunch of random things

- Charles V has air of melancholy
- still shapes history after his death
- first instance of incest within Habsburg
- Innsbruck, Tyrol & Further Austria area
- Protestant vs Catholic & Habsburg role in it
- Graz, permanent war council
- Uskok of Senj, immoral Christian pirates, double-edge sword
- Cesky Krumlov

Chapter 2: The early HRE Habsburgs emperors

-Frederick III the first
- Maximilian I, man of action & intellect, attached the fam name w Empire, made up genealogy descended from Hector to ensure family, marry princess of Burgandy
-Philips marries Juana, daughter of Castille's Isabella & Aragon's Ferdinand II, gets Spain, their 4 daughters marry kings, 2 sons
-Charles V & Ferdinant I get Spain & Hungary, use relics

Chapter 1: origins of how the Habsburg family came to power

Central Europe's paranoia against invasion from all sides. (WestEuro,Hun,etc)
This fuels Charlemagne to establish the Holy Roman Empire.
Generations passed and the election system (seven electors made up of kings,dukes,etc) crowned Frederick III as emperor, which unintentionally led to a single ruling family for hundreds of years to come - The Habsburgs.

Book 4: Dog Spirits ✅

Ah, the 1990s

Book 3 : Pig Frolics ✅

So many things happened in his chapter. After all, it's set during the peak & final years of Mao's Cultural Revolution.

Book 2: The Strength of an Ox ✅

Ngl, lowkey heartbreaking

Book 1: Donkey's Miseries ✅

I will read Jane Austen's work eventually so why not start reading one in honour of her 250th birthday

Yeah, i should start reading something happy/wholesome for once 💀