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

4 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 to the brink of implosion at the end of the 1520s. As a result, a comprehensive hist ...

PART I ACCOMMODATION ...

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The year 1415 began in Switzerland with an epoch-making event. In the turbu- lence which surrounded the imposition of the imperi ...

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Setting the Scene 9 southern Germany, detested and derided since its crushing defeats at Sempach and Näfels in 1386 and 1388, ha ...

10 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 neighbours who realized that unfolding events in the west—the Burgundian Wars and t ...

Setting the Scene 11 Swabian imperial city of Lindau, both in 1458.12 Stein am Rhein, another diminutive quasi-imperial city on ...

Although Konstanz had been able to keep its distance during the hostilities of the Old Zürich War, the Thurgau, its hinterland t ...

The Occupation of the Thurgau 13 However feeble the military resistance they encountered, the Swiss soon discovered that they ha ...

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The Occupation of the Thurgau 15 allegiance was their preferred means of affirming overlordship. For its part, Konstanz had no c ...

16 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 In Swabia proper the county of Hohenegg bordering the Allgäu had fallen to the Habs ...

The Occupation of the Thurgau 17 imperial knights submitted to Austrian overlordship; that is, they recognized the supremacy of ...

18 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 nobleman, Bilgeri von Heudorf.53 Once an official of the bishop of Konstanz, from 1 ...

Although there had been overtures under Archduke Albrecht in 1462–3 to conclude a lasting peace with the Swiss which would embra ...

20 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 rescheduling.62 Would this have been preferable to its falling into the hands of th ...

From War to Peace 21 against any Swiss expansion.71 Once King Louis XI of France had rejected any offer of military assistance, ...

22 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 dragged their feet in signing it.80 Nevertheless, three years later it was transfor ...

The Burgundian Wars involved the Swiss in a new international conflict in the west which sucked in foreign powers, first and for ...