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

64 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 1447–8.7 But alarm at the possibility of an overmighty Savoy persuaded Bern to rene ...

The Romandie: An Open Landscape 65 Burgrechte ceased to be concluded with individuals and were confined to juridical persons or ...

66 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 circumstances, above all when Savoy fell victim to manifold vicissitudes after 1460 ...

The Romandie lay at the intersection of international trade routes east to west and north to south.30 The Alpine passes led to a ...

68 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 gradual shift from a Mediterranean to an Atlantic economy.35 Duke Charles II’s moun ...

The Romandie: A Commercial Crossroads 69 For eastern Switzerland salt-provisioning was hardly a problem. Salt could be shipped c ...

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The Romandie: A Commercial Crossroads 71 Vaud arable and sheep farming prevailed, while along the shores of Lakes Geneva and Neu ...

72 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 the landscape remained both productive and populous. Yet those wars between 1475 an ...

An older tradition of Swiss historiography believed that Bern and its allies occupied the Vaud in response to the threat of inva ...

74 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 foundered not only on Emperor Frederick III’s half-hearted commitment70—no addition ...

The Burgundian Wars 75 court.76 Moreover, he nursed a grudge against Savoy. In the autumn of 1474 he was returning from France, ...

76 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 the intervention of the Bernese councillor, Niklas von Scharnachtal, to get them to ...

The Burgundian Wars 77 January were as far removed from practical politics as could be imagined, above all the notion that Yolan ...

78 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 Chablais, and Lake Geneva. The conquest added another 1400  km2 to Valais’s already ...

Even before Charles the Bold’s demise arguments had broken out over what should happen to the Vaud. Bern and Fribourg wasted no ...

80 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 The peace treaty which followed between the Swiss and Savoy stipulated that Geneva ...

A Contested Outcome 81 without delay, with hostages taken for the remainder. That prompted Geneva to sign a Burgrecht for five y ...

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A Contested Outcome 83 the Vaud would be administered jointly by the X cantons (Fribourg and Solothurn already included in their ...