Hapsburgian

William Taylor describes the Crown at this time breaking with a Hapsburgian model of rule, which had been based on the parental metaphor of a Hispanic family, with the Crown as the father and the Church as the model.

Let us conclude with some reflections upon the similarities and differences between both verse narratives, separated by ca. eighty to ninety years, the older one composed in Alsace (then in the western parts of the German Empire), the later one created in the area of Upper Austria (territory of the Hapsburgians, in the southeastern parts).