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

Table Of Contents -- Cover -- Table of Contents -- 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 -- List of Charts, Maps and Tables -- Chart -- Chart 1. Bern’s alliance treaties (1224–1536) -- Maps -- Map 1. Milliet and Donzel’s debtors in 1515 -- Map 2. Border France–Empire (1477–1493) -- Map 3. Savoy and the Swiss around 1516 -- Map 4. Bern, Fribourg and Solothurn and their network of alliances -- Map 5. Geneva and its medieval diocese -- Map 6. Geneva and her neighbours (1536–1569) -- Tables -- Table 1. Milliet and Donzel’s debtors -- Table 2. Ten biggest urban markets for Milliet and Donzel -- Table 3. The Sabaudian urban landscape in Piedmont -- Table 4. Principal negotiations between Savoy, Geneva, Bern and Fribourg concerning the combourgeoisie of 1526 -- Table 5. Printed synodal constitutions within the Duchy of Savoy -- Table 6. Bern’s, Fribourg’s and Solothurn’s alliance treaties (1482-1536) -- Table 7. The Mammelus -- Table 8. The Peneysans -- Table 9. Trials against the Peneysans (1534-1536) -- Table 10. Guillaume Farel and the early evangelical community in Geneva (1532) -- Table 11. People imprisoned, interrogated and tried by the Peneysans -- Table 12. Missals, breviaries and manuals printed for the Sabaudian dioceses north of the Alps

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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