Freiburg and the Breisgau: Town-Country Relations in the Age of Reformation and Peasants' War

by Tom Scott

Overview

This regional study examines the declining fortunes of Freiburg, a craft town on the Upper Rhine, and its relations with the surrounding Breisgau village communities. Here, Scott uses historical and economic geography to examine the town and surrounding villages as a totality rather than as isolated independent communities, focusing on the troubled period from 1450 to 1530 when the territorial expansion of Freiburg threatened the surrounding Breisgau villages and pitted burgher against peasant in a struggle for economic and political survival.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198219965
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/26/1987
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	8.82(w) x 6.74(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

University of Liverpool

Table of Contents

	List of Tables	x
	List of Maps	xi
	Abbreviations	xii
	Note on Proper Names	xiii
	Introduction	I
Part 1	The Territorial Town In The Later Middle Ages
I.	Freiburg and its Relations with the Breisgau	15
II.	The Anatomy of a Craft Town	47
Part 2	Crisis And Change
III.	Conflict between Freiburg and the Breisgau	77
IV.	The Decline and Recovery of Freiburg's Economy	114
V.	Conclusion	155
Part 3	The Age Of Peasant Revolt
VI.	The Bundschuh Uprisings	165
VII.	Freiburg and the Peasants' War	190
	Conclusion	229
	Bibliography	236
	Index	257

Editorial Reviews

"Scott has few equals as an expert on the economic and social facts of rural and urban life in southwestern Germany in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries....An impressive achievement."—American Historical Review

"A regional study that transcends its declared scope....Important and interesting are his findings on the impact of the Reformation and the Peasants' War, which put in doubt some of the widely held views on the subject."—CHOICE

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