Early Modern Democracy in the Grisons: Social Order and Political Language in a Swiss Mountain Canton, 1470 1620

by Randolph C. Head

Book Overview

The Freestate of the Three Leagues in the Grisons, a rural confederation in the Swiss Alps, was one of the most unusual political entities in early modern Europe. In the sixteenth century, its inhabitants enjoyed popular sovereignty and remarkable local autonomy, and many of them insisted on political equality among citizens, and on political leaders' responsibilities to their communities. The author of this 1995 book uses pamphlets and political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521470862
• ISBN13: 9780521470865
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.4"