Factional Struggles

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34415-0
Verlag: de Gruyter Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 527 g

Reihe: Rulers & Elites

Factional Struggles explores the dynamics of conflicts among ruling elites within cities, dynastic courts, rural areas and regional noble lineages during the early modern period. Building on case studies from France, Italy, the Empire and the Swiss Confederation, the essays collected by Mathieu Caesar in this volume highlight how factions were formed and how they shaped political society from the late Middle Ages. The authors have especially focused on how political and religious ideologies contributed to the formation of partisanship, the role of propaganda, and the significance and strategies of factional leaders. The volume shows how factions, despite the generally negative view of them held by theologians and jurists, were in practice accepted and used as political tools.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Caesar, Mathieu

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte Europäische Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps
Notes on Contributors
1. Did Factions Exist? Problems and Perspectives on European Factional Struggles (1400–1750)
Mathieu Caesar
2. The Black Raven and His Gang: Politics in Augsburg in Times of Crisis (1450–1480)
Dominique Adrian
3. Changing Skin: Identities and Strategies in Late Medieval Basque banderizo Warfare
José Ramón Díaz de Durana and Arsenio Dacosta
4. Conciliarist Employment of Eschatology during and after the Council of Basel (1431–1460)
Frances Courtney Kneupper
5. Factions in Rome between Papal Wars and International Conflicts (1480–1530)
Maria Antonietta Visceglia
6. The Prince and the Factions: Rebellion and Political Propaganda in Sixteenth-Century Geneva
Mathieu Caesar
7. Not Only Blood: Factions on the Venetian Terraferma during the Early Modern Period
Andrea Savio
8. A Temperate Factionalism: Political Life in Amiens at the End of the Wars of Religion
Olivia Carpi
9. The Imperial Court during the Thirty Years War: A Battleground for Factions?
Rubén González Cuerva and Luis Tercero Casado
10. Divide and Rule? Rival Factions and Prussian State Management in Eighteenth-Century Neuchâtel
Nadir Weber
11. Factions and Parties in Early Modern Swiss Conflicts
Andreas Würgler
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Mathieu Caesar is Maître assistant at the Université de Genève (Ph.D. 2009). He has published on Geneva, the duchy of Savoy, and medieval preaching, including Le pouvoir en ville. Gestion urbaine et pratiques politiques à Genève (Brepols, 2011).