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

ISBN-13: 9780198219965 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 350 str.

Tom Scott

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'He has plundered eighteen archives in four countries and shown the ability to draw discriminately upon models derived from the social sciences while remaining firmly rooted in a bedrock of careful historical research.' Henry J. Cohn, University of Warwick, European History Quarterly