Factional Struggles
Divided Elites in European Cities & Courts (1400-1750)
Published on 27. July 2017
Book
Hardback
269 pages
978-90-04-34415-0 (ISBN)
Description
This title is available in Open Access thanks to the support of Universite de Geneve.
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.
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
527 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-34415-0 (9789004344150)
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Person
Mathieu Caesar is Maitre assistant at the Universite de Geneve (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 a Geneve (Brepols, 2011).
Content
Notes on Contributors Did Factions Exist? Problems and Perspectives on European Factional Struggles (1400-1750) Mathieu Caesar The Black Raven and his Gang: Politics in Augsburg in times of crisis (1450-1480) Dominique Adrian Changing skin. Identities and strategies in late medieval Basque banderizo warfare Jose Ramon Diaz de Durana Arsenio Dacosta Conciliarist Employment of Eschatology During and After The Council of Basel (1431-1460) Frances Courtney Kneupper Factions in Rome between Papal Wars and International Conflicts (1480-1530) Maria Antonietta Visceglia The Prince and the Factions: Rebellion and Political Propaganda in Sixteenth-Centuy Geneva Mathieu Caesar Not only blood. Factions on the Venetian Terraferma during the Early Modern Period Andrea Savio A Temperate Factionalism: Political Life in Amiens at the end of the Wars of Religion Olivia Carpi The Imperial Court during the Thirty Years War: a Battleground for Factions? Ruben Gonzalez Cuerva Luis Tercero Casado Divide and Rule? Rival Factions and Prussian State Management in Eighteenth-Century Neuchatel Nadir Weber Factions and Parties in Early Modern Swiss Conflicts Andreas Wurgler Bibliography Index