Early Modern Democracy in the Grisons Social Order Political Language in a Swiss Mountain Canton, 1470

Klappentext A study of one of the most unusual political entities in early modern Europe! in the Swiss Alps. 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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Olwen Hufton (Editor), John Elliott (Editor)
• Authors: Head Randolph C., Randolph C. (University of California Head, Randolph C. Head
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 09.05.2002
• Subject: Non-fiction book; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
• EAN: 9780521893794
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89379-4
• Dimensions (packing): 15.2 x 22.8 x 1.8 cm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Mod; Print on Demand; Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
• Subjects: Graubünden : Geschichte, Switzerland, HISTORY / Europe / General, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700