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Early Modern Democracy in the Grisons - Social Order and Political Language in a Swiss Mountain Canton

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Klappentext The Freestate of the Three Leagues in the Grisons, a rural confederation in the Swiss Alps, was one of the most unusual political entities found 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 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. The Rhaetian Freestate was not typical, but rather represents a political culture distinct from both absolutism and later liberal ideas. Zusammenfassung This is a 1995 study of one of the most unusual political entities in early modern Europe: the Freestate of the Three Leagues in the Grisons! a rural confederation of peasant villages in the Swiss Alps. New light is shed both on an early democratic state and on the role of community in the history of early modern democracy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; List of illustrations; Note on languages, orthography and abbreviations; Introduction: social order, politics, and political language in the Grisons, 1470-1520; 1. Communalism and other political models in Europe and the Grisons; 2. Rhaetia to 1520: geography, society, history; 3. Local practice and federal government in the Freestate; 4. From consolidation to communal politics, c. 1580-1620; 5. Elite power and popular constraint in sixteenth-century Rhaetia; 6. Reform, communal action and crisis, c. 1580-1620; 7. Political language and political cosmology during the crisis years, 1617-22; Conclusion: democracy in early modern Rhaetia....

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Autoren Randolph Head, Randolph C. Head
Verlag Cambridge University Press Academic
 
Sprache Englisch
Produktform Fester Einband
Erschienen 27.01.1995
 
EAN 9780521470865
ISBN 978-0-521-47086-5
Abmessung 160 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
Serie Cambridge Studies in Early Mod
Themen Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte
Schule und Lernen > Unterrichtsvorbereitung > Berufliche Bildung

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