The Swiss and their Neighbours, 1460-1560
Between Accommodation and Aggression
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 May 2017
- ISBN 9780198725275
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages236 pages
- Size 241x170x19 mm
- Weight 514 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 black and white maps 0
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Short description:
Much of early-modern Europe was built up gradually by a series of leagues and alliances, and this volume seeks to demonstrate that the Swiss Confederation was one such composite polity, surviving until the end of the ancien regime by accommodating and absorbing internal conflicts through a sense of common identity and mutual obligation.
MoreLong description:
Renewed interest in Swiss history has sought to overcome the old stereotypes of peasant liberty and republican exceptionalism. The heroic age of the Confederation in the fifteenth century is now seen as a turning-point as the Swiss polity achieved a measure of institutional consolidation and stability, and began to mark out clear frontiers. The Swiss and their Neighbours, 1460-1560 questions both assumptions. It argues that the administration of the common lordships by the cantons collectively gave rise to as much discord as co-operation, and remained a pragmatic device not a political principle. It argues that the Swiss War of 1499 was an avoidable catastrophe, from which developed a modus vivendi between the Swiss and the Empire as the Rhine became a buffer-zone, not a boundary. It then investigates the background to Bern's conquest of the Vaud in 1536, under the guise of relieving Geneva from beleaguerment, to suggest that Bern's actions were driven not by predeterminate territorial expansion but by the need to halt French designs upon Geneva and Savoy.
The geopolitical balance of the Confederation was fundamentally altered by Bern's acquisition of the Vaud and adjacent lands. Nevertheless, the political fabric of the Confederation, which had been tested to the brink during the Reformation, proved itself flexible enough to absorb such a major reorientation, not least because what held the Confederation together was not so much institutions as a sense of common identity and mutual obligation forged during the Burgundian Wars of the 1470s.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
PART I: Accommodation
Setting the Scene
The Occupation of the Thurgau
From War to Peace
Trouble in the Thurgau
Konstanz's Dilemma
The Swiss or Swabian War of 1499
Raids and Retaliation
The Peace of Basel and Its Aftermath
The Hereditary Agreement of 1511
Calm Amidst the Storm
A Last Hurrah
Conclusion: Frontiers Mental and Physical
PART II: Aggression
The Romandie: An Open Landscape
The Romandie: A Commercial Crossroads
The Burgundian Wars
A Contested Outcome
The Troubled Inheritance of Duke Charles II of Savoy
The Dufour Affair
All Unquiet on the Western Front
Savoy Strikes Back
The Struggle for Geneva
War or Peace?
Religion or Politics?
The Year of the French
The Vagaries of Conquest
The Spoils of War
Faction in Geneva
The Romandie Reconfigured
Conclusion: Motives and Outcomes
Conclusion
