Freiburg and the Breisgau : town-country relations in the Age of Reformation and Peasants' War / Tom Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Tom, 1947-2022.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformation--Germany--Freiburg im Breisgau.

Reformation.

Peasants' War, 1524-1525.

Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany)--History.

Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany).

Breisgau (Germany)--History, Local.

Breisgau (Germany).

Germany--Freiburg im Breisgau.

Physical Description:

xiii unnumbered pages, 265 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1986.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Part 3 The Age Of Peasant Revolt

VI. The Bundschuh Uprisings 165

VII. Freiburg and the Peasants' War 190.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 236-256.

ISBN:

0198219962 :

OCLC:

14273587