Der Kaiser reist inkognito: Joseph II und das Europa der Aufklärung by Monika Czernin
Journal: Journal of Austrian studies
Year: 2023

Reviewed by: Der Kaiser reist inkognito: Joseph II und das Europa der Aufklärung by Monika Czernin Joseph W. Moser Monika Czernin, Der Kaiser reist inkognito: Joseph II und das Europa der Aufklärung. Munich: Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe, 2021. 383 pp. As the Habsburg monarchy's first Enlightenment-era monarch, Emperor Joseph II is well remembered for his twenty-five-year reign (1765–90), fifteen years of which he ruled alongside his mother Maria Theresia (1765–80). Most of his ambitious re