Was there a difference between the nobility of Austria and the nobility of the other possessions, the Habsburgs? Was the assassination in important positions more difficult? Was there a special treatment for the nobility of Austria? (QH)
Did the monastic orders of Austrians participate in the Catholic counter-reform? Had an influence on the court or the imperial power? (QH)
There's no real coherence in the Habsburg territory, how can they manage so many different cultures into one dynasty? (CF)
How was the power distributed? If there were no Austrian identity, how was it effective? (CF)
What kind of power they had over the self-governed peasants? (CF)
As the administration gets more complex, does it mean that the power gets more centralized as a result? (CF)
What was the place of the bourgeoisie, the merchants and the cities in the Habsburg lands? (CF)
How Bohemia with its history, divided, the different language imposed, the different dynasties, own to Austrians and the Habsburgs, and all the wars because of religion can be still united during all this time ? have they a sort of patriotism ? (MB)
All along the text we talk about religion, and all the wars, protestants and religions, and the back to Catholicism especially with the second point of the renewed constitution of 1627. What happen to the minority such as the protestants (those who don’t leave the country) and the Jews who are non considered as illegal ? (MB)
“The face of Prague was ruled by the shadow of the Habsburg” But what about the influence of the rest of the country above all in the countryside, the influence of the Habsburg still the same ? Or the people try to keep their own culture? Can we fell the influence of Habsburg everywhere or above all in the mains towns? (MB)