Glory and Eternity
Three noble families shape their times through marriages and intrigues.
The Europe of kings would have been inconceivable without the eminently selfconfident and powerful dynasties of the Early Modern high nobility. Leonhard Horowski tells the story of the English Bentincks, the French Richelieus, and the Austrian Liechtensteins against the astonishing and colorful panorama of the period between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The three families were linked by their aspirations to power, to the court, and to proximity to the kings, as well as their ambitions to perpetuate their fame and wealth. They kept themselves at the top through marriages, intrigues and conniving as much as through often unintentional inventions, ranging from mayonnaise to the constitutional monarchy.
• A little-known but tremendously formative epoch in European history
• Leonhard Horowski is known as renowed researcher and terrificstoryteller