#Rudolf ii

[little-candy-store-of-horrors]

"Bella gerunt alii, tu felix Austria nube!"

Day 6 of @spaus-week 's challenge

"Let others wage war, you, happy Austria, marry!" Was the political strategy of the Habsburgs, and marry did the House of Austria! Infamously, scandalously, sensationally. A mangled wreath of a family tree. We all know this horror story. And we all know the bitter end.

After Emperor Charles V&I divided his Spanish and Austrian inheritance ((also gained through his parents' and grandparents' marriages)) to his descendants and those of his younger brother Ferdinand I respectively, the Habsburg dynasty split into two branches. The Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs notoriously intermarried for generations, right up till Charles II of Spain whose heirless death in 1700 sparked the War of the Spanish Succession. The inbreeding and this informal Latin motto behind it has been blamed to hell and back for their implosion, for the physical ugliness that ran in this royal bloodline. But it is not to say the Habsburgs never went to war, nor that dynastic marriage was a political strategy unique to them! But they were, if anything, bloody successful at it seeing how they did rule half of Europe for 200 years, and then a lot of it in the Austrian line for another 200. Before anyone figured out inbreeding was bad it was considered a privilege to marry into the Habsburgs, with Louis XV claiming that Louis XVI's betrothal to Marie Antoinette was marrying the "Daughter of the Caesars", and Napoleon Bonaparte infamously ditching Josephine for Marie Louise. Charles II was a poor sod who took the fall and the mugs were wretched from the same ugly gene being passed around countless times*, but they did wear power and privilege well.

💅✨ Symbolism bc I'm a NERD and this my Category 10 autism event ✨💅 :

Charles V & Ferdinand I's joint portrait based on that propaganda woodcut, behind them the colours of the Habsburg flag.

The Spanish branch, comprising Charles V & I's descendants, is represented with a black background, and the Austrian branch, comprising Ferdinand I's descendants, gold, both colours pulled from their flag, a dynasty intertwined but split in two.

Round frames denote that the individual had no heirs.

Only the most influential ruler on both sides, the King of Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor, are represented as framed portraits, explaining Archduke Charles II's unframed depiction.

The unconventional placement of Charles II of Spain and Emperor Rudolf II's nameplates are a nod to their queerness: their intersexuality and bisexuality respectively.

Ferdinand III's portrait is lopsided because of the losses of the 30 Years War.

Cracks in Charles II's portrait: 🙃🙃🙃

[jareckiworld]

Bedřich Budil — Rudolf II of Habsburg (oil on canvas, 1985)

[tiny-librarian]

Royal Birthdays for Today, August 8th: 

Casper, Maya Ruler, 422

Horikawa, Emperor of Japan, 1079

Rudolf II, Duke of Bavaria, 1306

Maria Alexandrovna, Empress of Russia, 1824

Beatrice of York, British Princess, 1988

[mikamikapodcast]

Voynich manuscript

A mystery that makes even the best researchers scratch their heads. The Voynich Manuscript is for you who want to solve a challenging mystery. The manuscript has been held at Yale University since 1969. The manuscript received worldwide attention when Wilfrid Voynich bought it. A cash-strapped Jesuit sold the manuscript. Who wrote the piece. Why was the work made and what is it? These are the questions to be considered in today's case.

Voynichin Käsikirjoitus

Ei tiennyt kirjakauppias Wildfrid Voynich 1912 ostaessaan rahapulassa olleelta jesuiitalta mitä tuli ostettua. Tämä maailman kuulu käsikirja, jota on tutkittu ja luettu mutta ei ymmärretty. Veljeskunnalta takavarikoitu kirjoja, mutta joitain teoksia oli saatu piilotettua. Voynich piti teosta aina mukanaan ja näytti sitä yliopistoille, mutta tähän päivään mennessä sitä ei kukaan ole pystynyt selvittämään. Nykypäivänä teos makaa Yalen yliopistossa ja on hyvin suojattuna.

Teosta on siis tutkittu ja sen alkulähteeksi on veikattu Pohjois-Italiaa. Aika kausi olisi 1400-luku ja sen ensimmäinen puolisko. Muita veikattuja maita on Saksa, Espanja ja Böömiä. Kieli on eksentristä. Välimerkkien löysä käyttö ja epämääräinen kieliopillinen rakenne on omiaan kuvamaan teosta. Omaperäisiä kirjaimia ja kuvia.

Kirjaa on esitetty lääketieteelliseksi teokseksi. Tarkemmin kasvien ja yrttien avusta lääketieteessä. Se on kirjoitettu arvioiden mukaan 1400-luvun alussa Saksalais-Roomalaisessa keisarikunnassa. Kirjan osti Rudolf II vuonna 1500-luvulla. Rudolf II joka oli tunnettu bibliofiili. Monien vaiheiden jälkeen on uskottu, että jesuiitta ja monitieteilijä Athanasius Kircher on hankkinut teoksen jesuiitta veljeskunnalle. Voynich toi kirjan taas 1900-luvulla suuren yleisön tietoisuuteen.

Wilfrid Voynich uskoi teoksen tehneen filosofi munkki Roger Bacon keskiajalla.

Kaikesta päätellen mysteeri pysyy mysteerinä. Vai onko niin, että kirja ei ole mitään. Trollaus ei tuohon aikaan ollut vielä sanastossa, mutta olisihan tämä vuosituhannen jekku.

[master-of-the-opera-house]

A tumblrina and their poor little miau miaus

[diioonysus]

hands in hands, hearts entwined

[ihateornithologists]

me for the past couple of years

[spghtrbry]

[illustratus]

Wenceslas asks Rudolf of Habsburg for the body of his father King Ottokar II of Bohemia

by Anton Petter

[little-candy-store-of-horrors]

Thought I'd do a thing for @best-habsburg-monarch since they'd just finished their polls and someone i rooted for on my own always nonsense reasons actually clawed his way into the top three

[strechanadi]

You know what?

I’m gonna say it.

I like Nureyev’s Nutcracker.

There.

[czgif]

Miroslav Macháček and Rudolf Hrušínský (II) in Love Between the Raindrops (Lásky mezi kapkami deště) 1980, dir. Karel Kachyňa IMDB

[fitzrove]

irl lesbian rudolf,,,,, filing this away in my head

[securityholograms]

someone forgot to tell me this was named after him😭

[ihateornithologists]

speaking of cigarettes..... i had this cursed thing it's uhhmmm a dialogue between me and my friends illustrated as a shitty 2min meme and it's kinda HARD TO TRANSLATE but.

okay so. a friend (drawn as wilhelm here) sent me that extremely cursed picture with a caption 'have a smoke. suck death's dick' and i laughed so hard that sent it to another friend who uhhh Kind of roleplayed tod at some point in life.

so like. a free retelling

willy: that's for you (shows this picture)

rudolf: (unidentified expression) (shows the picture to tod)

tod: yeah that's absolutely right and valid get on your knees take a smoke

rudolf: (laughs hysterically and starts coughing)

willy: you know . What else would make you cough.

rudolf: (explodes)

[spghtrbry]

happy birthday willy