Early Modern Democracy in the Grisons | Buch

Cover: 9780521470865 | Early Modern Democracy in the Grisons | Randolph Head | Buch | 2011

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Beschreibung

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.

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.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2011
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9780521470865
ISBN-10:	0521470862
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Head, Randolph
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	235 x 157 x 23 mm
Von/Mit:	Randolph Head
Erscheinungsdatum:	20.05.2011
Gewicht:	0,653 kg

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