The Uncertain World of Renaissance Geneva and Savoy
Political Life, Factional Conflicts and Religious Turmoil
Published on 1. October 2025
302 pages
978-1-040-79987-1 (ISBN)
Description
Uncertainty and instability affected Geneva and the Duchy of Savoy since the mid-fifteenth century. French and Swiss expansionism had turned Savoy into part of a long geopolitical fault line, running from the North Sea to the Mediterranean along the border between France and the Empire. In Geneva, and partially in other towns of Piedmont and the Pays de Vaud, this instability fuelled urban factionalism, confessional conflicts, but also wider discussions about the ways in which society could be reformed. Conflicts were, in the end, the consequence of a struggle about the best political and religious option to reduce uncertainty. The Uncertain World of Renaissance Geneva and Savoy looks at how political life worked in a time of great instability, seeking to answer a straightforward-but not easy-question: how did people face and react to political and religious uncertainty?
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English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
13,54 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-79987-1 (9781040799871)
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Mathieu Caesar
The Uncertain World of Renaissance Geneva and Savoy
Political Life, Factional Conflicts and Religious Turmoil
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05/2025
Pallas Publications
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Mathieu Caesar is Associate Professor in medieval history at the Universite de Geneve. He mainly works on social, cultural and political history, and has published on Renaissance Geneva and Savoy, taxation and public finances, revolts, late medieval preaching, princely legislation, early printing, and reversals of fortune.
Content
Abbreviations, Prologue, Chapter 1, An uncertain world: from prosperity to instability, Chapter 2, Regional alliances and urban factionalism, Chapter 3, Princely policies amidst rising uncertainty, Chapter 4, Genevan confessional struggles: factions and criminal trials, Chapter 5, Competing reforms, Epilogue, Maps, Tables, Bibliography, Index.
