2010
Cairn
Gilles Buscot, « L'Autriche antérieure entre Habsbourg et Bourbons. Les symboliques rivales des cérémonies festives », Études Germaniques, ID : 10670/1.m69m8n
Given its geographic proximity with Alsace and France, Further Austria was frequently the object of violent disputes between the Hapsburgs and the Bourbons. Above and beyond wars and sieges, the territory was the site of a form of symbolic warfare. The article examines the competing symbolism at work in festive ceremonies in Freiburg im Breisgau, the capital of Further Austria in the wake of the Thirty Years War. The princely festivities celebrated in this city, which was often besieged and occupied by France, clearly symbolize the striking diplomatic changes that characterized the relations between the two princely houses.