'Factional Struggles' explores the dynamics of conflicts among ruling elites within cities, dynastic courts, rural areas and regional noble lineages during the early modern period. Building on case studies from France, Italy, the Empire and the Swiss Confederation, the essays collected by Mathieu Caesar in this volume highlight how factions were formed and how they shaped political society from the late Middle Ages. The authors have especially focused on how political and religious ideologies contributed to the formation of partisanship, the role of propaganda, and the significance and strategies of factional leaders. The volume shows how factions, despite the generally negative view of them held by theologians and jurists, were in practice accepted and used as political tools.
Author(s): Mathieu Caesar (ed.)
Series: Rulers & Elites. Comparative Studies in Governance, 10
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 270
City: Leiden
List of Maps vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Did Factions Exist? Problems and Perspectives on European Factional Struggles (1400–1750) / Mathieu Caesar 1
The Black Raven and His Gang: Politics in Augsburg in Times of Crisis (1450–1480) / Dominique Adrian 18
Changing Skin: Identities and Strategies in Late Medieval Basque 'banderizo' Warfare / José Ramón Díaz de Durana and Arsenio Dacosta 37
Conciliarist Employment of Eschatology during and after the Council of Basel (1431–1460) / Frances Courtney Kneupper 56
Factions in Rome between Papal Wars and International Conflicts (1480–1530) / Maria Antonietta Visceglia 82
The Prince and the Factions: Rebellion and Political Propaganda in Sixteenth-Century Geneva / Mathieu Caesar 104
Not Only Blood: Factions on the Venetian 'Terraferma' during the Early Modern Period / Andrea Savio 122
A Temperate Factionalism: Political Life in Amiens at the End of the Wars of Religion / Olivia Carpi 137
The Imperial Court during the Thirty Years War: A Battleground for Factions? / Rubén González Cuerva and Luis Tercero Casado 155
Divide and Rule? Rival Factions and Prussian State Management in Eighteenth-Century Neuchâtel / Nadir Weber 176
Factions and Parties in Early Modern Swiss Conflicts / Andreas Würgler 196
Bibliography 217
Index 247
