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

44 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 Swiss even contemplated buying Gottlieben outright from the bishop.250 The bishop’s ...

Maximilian, for purely utilitarian ends, had sought a rapprochement with the cantons as soon as the Swiss War was over. As Betti ...

46 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 annual recognition payment of 1000 fl, but in addition 123 citizens (an arbitrary n ...

The Hereditary Agreement of 1511 47 The significance of the Hereditary Agreement has been overshadowed by the Confederal peace t ...

Between 1520 and 1540 southern Germany and Switzerland were convulsed by political, social, and religious upheaval. First, Duke ...

Calm amidst the Storm 49 hired Swiss troops melted away like snow on the news of Emperor Charles V’s vic- tory over the French a ...

50 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 under the sign of the Gospel, but rather in making common cause with the city’s win ...

Calm amidst the Storm 51 harrying its Reforming clerics: the Catholic cantons certainly would not come to the city’s rescue.302 ...

52 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 conflict it maintained a less aggressive stance towards the Catholic cantons than Z ...

After 1500 relations between Austrians and Swiss were channelled into calmer waters. The Swiss War, for all its undoubted horren ...

54 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 prepared to march to Rottweil’s rescue they were joined by the Protestant cantons!3 ...

Any dispassionate view of the administration of the Thurgau as a common lordship must conclude that it bristled with difficultie ...

56 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 boundaries as such but the will of God manifest in the deeds of a valiant people.33 ...

Conclusion to Part I 57 Hochrhein what stands out from the High Middle Ages onwards is the number of bridges, with corresponding ...

58 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 the loss of a Catholic enclave (albeit Habsburg) but also any disturbance to the ex ...

PART II AGGRESSION ...

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In the late fifteenth century the Romandie, what is today French-speaking western Switzerland, was an open landscape: no single ...

62 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 those lands led to the Burgundian Wars, in which the struggle for control of the Fr ...

The Romandie: An Open Landscape 63 VAUD BURGUNDY JURA MOUNT FRANCHE-COMTÉ AINS AL SA CE ALPS SAVOY Lausanne Neuchâtel Pontarlier ...