Steven💉🌿🏨4All🚅🇺🇦 reviewed Raben im blauen Feld by Walter Zitzenbacher
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Set during the period of the Counter-Reformation and the Thirty Years' War, this historical novel, written as a chronicle, follows the life of Prince Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg at a time when Europe was at war over faith and power. The Protestant educated Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg, who converted to Catholicism, was a key figure during the period advising the staunchly Catholic Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II while ruling all of Inner Austria from the Eggenberg family seat in Graz (the only non-Habsburg to be granted that privilege). The inside dust jacket has this to say about it...
"...Historiography and poetry are successfully brought together in this work.
Within these pages one of the most moving epochs of Austrian history and the personalities that shaped it are so vividly presented that one can almost catch the scent of these former times. This chronicle of Prince Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg, who, …
Set during the period of the Counter-Reformation and the Thirty Years' War, this historical novel, written as a chronicle, follows the life of Prince Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg at a time when Europe was at war over faith and power. The Protestant educated Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg, who converted to Catholicism, was a key figure during the period advising the staunchly Catholic Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II while ruling all of Inner Austria from the Eggenberg family seat in Graz (the only non-Habsburg to be granted that privilege). The inside dust jacket has this to say about it...
"...Historiography and poetry are successfully brought together in this work.
Within these pages one of the most moving epochs of Austrian history and the personalities that shaped it are so vividly presented that one can almost catch the scent of these former times. This chronicle of Prince Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg, who, as primary adviser and closest confidant of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, played a decisive role in determining the fate of his era, has become a world stage where emperors and kings, princes and cardinals, field-marshals and envoys appear as sharply profiled figures in an ever-changing game..." ~ Professor Arthur Fischer-Colbrie