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Record Nr.

UNINA9911001789203321

Autore

Caesar Mathieu

Titolo

The Uncertain World of Renaissance Geneva and Savoy : Political Life, Factional Conflicts and Religious Turmoil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

1-04-079987-6

1-003-70793-9

1-04-077397-4

90-485-6640-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 pages)

Collana

Renaissance History, Art and Culture Series ; ; v.12

Disciplina

949.45103

Soggetti

Social history

Art - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Charts, Maps and Tables -- Abbreviations -- A Preliminary Note on Terms, Names and Maps -- Prologue -- 1. An Uncertain World: From Prosperity to Instability -- Renaissance Savoy -- The Swiss Influence -- Prosperity Lost -- 2. Regional Alliances and Urban Factionalism -- The Swiss Drive Towards the Lake Geneva Region -- Factions in Geneva -- 3. Princely Policies Amidst Rising Uncertainty -- An Unhealable Hereditary Hatred in Piedmontese Towns -- The Good Prince Against Factionalism -- Endless Negotiations and Obscure Times -- 4. Genevan Confessional Struggles: Factions and Criminal Trials -- The Early Evangelical Community -- The Repression of the Sabaudian-Catholic Faction -- Early Lutherans on Trial -- 5. Competing Reforms -- Reactions to the Spread of "Lutheranism" -- Reforming Society: The Estates and the Duke -- The Bishops and Ecclesiastical Reforms -- Epilogue -- Maps -- Tables -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.