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

104 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 autonomy of Lausanne and Geneva, independent cities and sees, but exposed to Savoy ...

Savoy Strikes Back 105 renewed in 1517, with Solothurn as a third signatory.291 But in 1519 Fribourg concluded a bilateral Burgr ...

106 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 resentment felt by Fribourg towards its erstwhile overlord was evidently still acu ...

Savoy Strikes Back 107 as Savoy drifted into the imperial camp,311 Duke Charles was helpless as Spanish troops caused havoc in P ...

108 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 remained was revealed in February 1526 when Savoy’s envoys, desperately trying to ...

Savoy Strikes Back 109 itself,331 since the Small Council was in a dilemma and struggling to keep on top of events. On the one h ...

110 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 summoned by Besançon Hugues and twisted it to his own purpose.343 He now offered h ...

The introduction of the Reformation in Geneva is a story often told, and it forms no part of the present analysis except in so f ...

112 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 Eidguenots bought up Mammelu property at bargain prices,362 after the latter had f ...

The Struggle for Geneva 113 to Geneva off their own bat.374 There were good reasons for its caution. Although Bern harboured man ...

114 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 to Bern, only to be told that they must as a consequence accept the city’s Reforma ...

The Struggle for Geneva 115 should be allowed to return on payment of a fine.393 In this catalogue of woe, the first sticking po ...

116 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 Failure to reach a settlement prompted another round of talks, but the participant ...

The Struggle for Geneva 117 dropped.417 Yet Duke Charles did achieve his immediate aim, for in August he concluded an alliance w ...

Bern had every reason to feel aggrieved. It found itself wrong-footed since earlier that month Savoy’s envoys had approached bot ...

War or Peace? 119 suggested to its commanders in the field that Yverdon and Romont should be pawned to the two cities if six ric ...

120 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 Bern and Fribourg if Savoy breached the treaty had been dangled over the duke seve ...

War or Peace? 121 diploma to describe the Genevans should be translated as ‘subjects’ not ‘inhabitants’. For their part, the Gen ...

122 The Swiss and Their Neighbours, 1460–1560 with  Savoy but also with Bern.453 A further issue—which had no direct link to the ...

War or Peace? 123 ships with Fribourg.467 But it failed to renew its alliance with Savoy: the Burgrecht with Geneva remained the ...