Factional Struggles: Divided Elites in European Cities and Courts (1400-1750)

272 Pages·2017·1.963 MB·English

by  Mathieu Caesar (ed.)

Factional Struggles
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Rulers & Elites
Comparative Studies in Governance
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Jeroen Duindam (Leiden University)
Editorial Board
Maaike van Berkel (Radboud University Nijmegen)
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Jean-Pascal Daloz (University of Strasbourg)
Jos Gommans (Leiden University)
Jérôme Kerlouégan (University of Oxford)
Dariusz Kołodziejczyk (Warsaw University)
Metin Kunt (Sabancı University)
VOLUME 10
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Factional Struggles
Divided Elites in European Cities and Courts
(1400–1750)
Edited by
Mathieu Caesar
LEIDEN | BOSTON
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Cover illustration: Grandes chroniques de France (ca. 1460), Châteauroux, Bibliothèque Municipale,
ms.  5(B.  244), fol. 171v, cliché cnrs—irht. Upper register: Confrontation between William of Longsword,
count of Rouen, and Arnoul i count of Flanders. Lower register: murder of William of Longsword by count
Arnoul. The episode took place in 942, and was part of the complex factional struggles of tenth-century
France.
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Contents
List of Maps vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Did Factions Exist? Problems and Perspectives on European Factional
Struggles (1400–1750) 1
Mathieu Caesar
The Black Raven and His Gang: Politics in Augsburg in Times of Crisis
(1450–1480) 18
Dominique Adrian
Changing Skin: Identities and Strategies in Late Medieval Basque banderizo
Warfare 37
José Ramón Díaz de Durana and Arsenio Dacosta
Conciliarist Employment of Eschatology during and after the Council
of Basel (1431–1460) 56
Frances Courtney Kneupper
Factions in Rome between Papal Wars and International Conflicts
(1480–1530) 82
Maria Antonietta Visceglia
The Prince and the Factions: Rebellion and Political Propaganda
in Sixteenth-Century Geneva 104
Mathieu Caesar
Not Only Blood: Factions on the Venetian Terraferma during the Early
Modern Period 122
Andrea Savio
A Temperate Factionalism: Political Life in Amiens at the End of the Wars
of Religion 137
Olivia Carpi
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vi Contents
The Imperial Court during the Thirty Years War: A Battleground for
Factions? 155
Rubén González Cuerva and Luis Tercero Casado
Divide and Rule? Rival Factions and Prussian State Management
in Eighteenth-Century Neuchâtel 176
Nadir Weber
Factions and Parties in Early Modern Swiss Conflicts 196
Andreas Würgler
Bibliography 217
Index 247
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List of Maps
1 The Hermandad of 1397 and the lineages of the Guipuzcoan Parientes
Mayores (14th–15th c.) 42
2 The seigneurial domains around 1450 and the territorial formation of
Alava (1463–1507) 43
3 The Private (banderizo) warfare (15th c.) 44
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Notes on Contributors
Dominique Adrian
wrote his PhD on late medieval politics in the imperial city of Augsburg (Augs-
bourg à la fin du Moyen Âge: la politique et l’espace, Ostfildern, 2013). He is an
associate researcher at the Université de Lorraine in Metz. His research is fo-
cussed on political life in the southern German imperial towns, with particular
attention on texts produced by the various institutions and individual actors
involved in civic life and on the political role of guilds.
Mathieu Caesar
is senior lecturer (maître assistant) in medieval history at the Université de
Genève and a member of the Editorial Board of the of the online Glossary on
Medieval Taxation. His research focus is on the political, social and religious
history of European cities (1300–1600). He is the author of Le pouvoir en ville.
Gestion urbaine et pratiques politiques à Genève (fin XIIIe–début XVIe siècles)
(Turnhout, 2011) and Histoire de Genève. La cité des évêques (IVe–début XVIe s.)
(Neuchâtel, 2014), and co-editor with Marco Schnyder of Religion et pouvoir. Or-
dre social et discipline morale dans les villes de l’espace suisse (XIVe–XVIIIe s.)
(Neuchâtel, 2014). He is also currently editing in collaboration with Franco
Morenzoni a collective book on the House of Savoy and late medieval princely
legislation: La Loi du Prince: les Statuts de Savoie d’Amédée viii (1430).
Olivia Carpi
has been a teacher and researcher at the University of Picardie-Jules Verne
(Amiens, France) since 2000. Her PhD dissertation in modern history was
about the Holy League in Amiens. Her interests focus on the French Wars of
Religion in the north of France, the urban Holy League, municipal history and
civic culture and, more recently, she has become interested in the pacification
process in French Catholic towns during and after the civil conflicts of the sec-
ond half of the sixteenth century. She has published several articles and two
major books: Une république imaginaire. Amiens pendant les troubles de religion
(Paris, 2005) and Les guerres de Religion. Un conflit franco-français (Paris, 2012).
Frances Courtney Kneupper
is Assistant Professor of History at The University of Mississippi Arch Dal-
rymple iii Department of History. She is a historian of prophecy and religious
dissent in late medieval Europe. She recently published a monograph titled
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