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1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 287 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511523335
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in early modern history
Content:
The Freestate of the Three Leagues in the Grisons, a rural confederation in the Swiss Alps, was one of the most unusual political entities in early modern Europe. In the sixteenth century, its inhabitants enjoyed popular sovereignty and remarkable local autonomy, and many of them insisted on political equality among citizens, and on political leaders' responsibilities to their communities. The author of this 1995 book uses pamphlets and political documents to trace the Freestate's evolution, focusing on its institutional structure and on the political language used by its inhabitants. This language included radical statements about 'democracy' and rule by the 'common man'. Even so, the Freestate participated in contemporary European political developments; but because it was different, it provides new perspectives on political ideas in sixteenth-century Europe. It represents a political culture distinct from both absolutism and later liberal ideas
Content:
Introduction: Social order, politics, and political language in Graubunden, 1470-1620 -- 1. Communalism and other political models in Europe and in Graubunden -- 2. Graubunden to 1520: geography, society, history -- 3. Local practice and federal government in the Freestate -- 4. From consolidation to communal politics: the Freestate, ca. 1530-1580 -- 5. Elite power and popular constraint in sixteenth-century Rhaetia -- 6. Reform, communal action and crisis, ca. 1580-1639 -- 7. Political language and political cosmology during the crisis years -- Conclusion: Democracy in early modern Graubunden
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521470865
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521893794
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521470865
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511523335
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