The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460-1560. Between Accommodation and Aggression

164 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 Gex, various Vaud communes, and the lands in the western Chablais.798 Of Fribourg ...

The Romandie Reconfigured 165 Valromey, and the Pays de Gex (the latter having recently come under Genevan administration). That ...

Shortly after its conquest of the Vaud Bern issued a newssheet giving an explanation for and justification of its aggression. Be ...

Conclusion to Part II 167 read as a straightforward Protestant manifesto, for the Valais communes, resolutely Catholic, were inv ...

168 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 force, in the struggle against Savoy, its erstwhile overlord, with the Small Counc ...

Conclusion to Part II 169 What stiffened its resolve to turn the Vaud from a protectorate (or milch-cow) into a dependency was t ...

170 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 Fribourg had a small circle of humanists (elsewhere so often the seedbed of subseq ...

Conclusion to Part II 171 In its administration Bern showed itself to be broadly conservative.829 French remained the language o ...

An older tradition of Swiss historiography liked to portray the Confederation as subsisting within boundaries which (at least in ...

Conclusion 173 as lying on the fringes (Randlage) of the Empire.5 But this view disregards the num- ber of imperial cities on Sw ...

174 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 describe Bern as a ‘small macro-state’, a category hitherto unknown to political s ...

Conclusion 175 applied to Solothurn as well. This model of what Christian Windler has called ‘state-building without direct taxa ...

176 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 character as a series of leagues. How, therefore, did the Confederation operate an ...

Conclusion 177 liberty. If towards the end of the sixteenth century the Swiss evinced an interest in theories of republicanism, ...

Glossary apanage A gift, usually of land, to younger sons of monarchs for their maintenance. Articulants A group of generally pr ...

Glossary 179 combourgeoisie see Burgrecht. common lordship(s) The common lordships were condominia which were administered by tw ...

180 Glossary Lower Union The alliance signed in April 1474 by the bishops of Basel and Strasbourg, the imperial cities of Basel, ...

Chronology NORTHERN SWITZERLAND (^) General Klettgau/Thurgau/Konstanz/Hegau 1414–18 Council of Konstanz 1415 CH conquest of Aarg ...

182 Chronology (^) General Klettgau/Thurgau/Konstanz/Hegau 1463 Rottweil as associated member of CH Bilgeri von Heudorf renews a ...

Chronology 183 (^) General Klettgau/Thurgau/Konstanz/Hegau 1480 CH considers taking full control of TG VII Orte consider each of ...