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Tables of Contents for Resistance, Representation, and Community
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
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xvii
Introduction
1
4
Peter Blickle
Part I Communal Autonomy and Peasant Resistance in Northern and Central Europe
5
60
Steinar Imsen
Gunter Vogler
1 The Competence of the Rural Commune
5
13
1.1 Northern Europe
5
7
1.2 Central Europe
12
6
2 Forms and Character of Peasant Resistance
18
19
2.1 Northern Europe
18
9
2.1.1 Chronology and general background
18
3
2.1.2 Forms and social structure of resistance
21
4
2.1.3 How conflicts were resolved
25
2
2.2 Central Europe
27
10
2.2.1 Chronology and general background
27
2
2.2.2 Form and social structure of acts of resistance
29
1
2.2.3 Autonomy of the commune and consolidation of lordship
30
2
2.2.4 Anti-fiscal revolts
32
1
2.2.5 Revolts against military burdens and the consequences of war
33
1
2.2.6 Resistance to confessional intolerance
34
1
2.2.7 Resolution of conflicts
35
2
3 Explanations
37
4
3.1 Northern Europe
37
1
3.2 Central Europe
38
3
4 Summary
41
24
Appendix 1 Commentary from a French Perspective
44
10
Hugues Neveux
Appendix 2 Commentary from a British Perspective
54
11
Steven Ellis
Part II The Monarchic State and Resistance in Spain, France, and the Old Provinces of the Habsburgs, 1400-1800
65
50
Jean Nicolas
Julio Valdeon Baruque
Sergij Vilfan
1 The Three Monarchies
67
5
1.1 Spain
67
1
1.2 France
68
2
1.3 The Lower Provinces of Austria (Niederosterreichische Lander)
70
2
2 The Right of Representation: The Resistance Movements
72
16
2.1 Spain
72
4
2.1.1 Institutional channels: the Cortes
72
2
2.1.2 Towns and people
74
1
2.1.3 The legal channels
75
1
2.1.4 Chronology of resistance movements
75
1
2.2 France
76
7
2.2.1 Estates General and provincial estates
76
2
2.2.2 The Parlements
78
3
2.2.3 Echevinages, village councils, associations
81
1
2.2.4 Chronology of resistance movements directed against state authority
82
1
2.3 Austria
83
5
2.3.1 The attitudes of the higher social groups
83
3
2.3.2 The resistance of the common man
86
2
2.3.3 Chronology of the main resistance movements
88
1
3 The Main Areas of Confrontation: Thematic Survey
88
11
3.1 France
88
6
3.1.1 Coalitions in religious conflicts in the sixteenth century
89
2
3.1.2 The values behind the questioning of the state's financial system in the seventeenth century
91
1
3.1.3 Food riots in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
92
1
3.1.4 Regional variations of acts of resistance
93
1
3.2 Spain
94
3
3.2.1 Interference of religious and social motives
94
1
3.2.2 Comunidades and Germanias: town and countryside
95
1
3.2.3 Fiscal rebellions and subsistence crises
96
1
3.3 Austria
97
2
3.3.1 Social antagonisms: lords, tenants, towns
97
1
3.3.2 Religious motives
98
1
3.3.3 Fiscal pressure and defence
98
1
3.3.4 Other issues
99
1
4 Messages and Responses
99
13
4.1 France
100
3
4.2 Spain
103
4
4.3 Austria: from princely intervention in popular revolts to procedures before the highest court
107
5
4.3.1 The monarchy's attitude towards rebellions
107
2
4.3.2 The perspectives of the antagonists
109
1
4.3.3 From commissions to legal channels
110
2
4.3.4 Tendencies
112
1
5 Conclusion
112
3
Part III The Commons and the State: Representation, Influence, and the Legislative Process
115
40
Peter Blickle
Steven Ellis
Eva Osterberg
1 Popular Influences and Administration in the Early Modern State
116
9
1.1 Germany
116
2
1.2 England
118
3
1.3 Sweden
121
4
2 Popular Concerns and Influences on the Legislative Process
125
7
2.1 Germany
125
1
2.2 England
126
2
2.3 Sweden
128
4
3 Legislation 'From Below'
132
18
3.1 Germany
132
6
3.2 England
138
9
3.3 Sweden
147
3
4 Conclusion
150
5
Part IV Norms and Values
155
62
Hugues Neveux
Eva Osterberg
Eberhard Isenmann
1 Norms and Values of the Peasantry in the Period of State Formation: A Comparative Interpretation
155
30
Hugues Neveux
Eva Osterberg
1.1 The issue
155
2
1.2 The comparative approach
157
4
1.3 A methodological discourse
161
1
1.4 Justice, the supreme value
162
5
1.5 Values guaranteeing justice
167
7
1.6 Values as principles of social organization
174
8
1.7 Conclusion
182
3
2 Norms and Values in the European City, 1300-1800
185
32
Eberhard Isenmann
2.1 Universal problems of maintaining order: urban solutions
185
2
2.2 The origins and foundations of urban norms
187
2
2.3 Norms and values
189
28
2.3.1 Norms and values which establish and maintain associations and ways in which they are realized
189
6
2.3.2 Unity and fragmentation of the commune
195
5
2.3.3 Socio-political concepts of honour, values, and lifestyles
200
5
2.3.4 Freedom and equality of the citizens
205
3
2.3.5 Formative influences of social and class-based value orientation on city government and politics
208
5
2.3.6 The common good and individual norms of conduct: the peace-keeping and administrative laws (Polizeigesetze)
213
4
Part V The Urban Belt and the Emerging Modern State
217
108
Gerhard Dilcher
Thomas A. Brady, Jr.
Wim Blockmans
Henk van Nierop
Ann Katherine Isaacs
Aurelio Must
1 Introduction
217
8
Gerhard Dilcher
1.1 The problem: city and state
217
1
1.2 The social and institutional structures
218
2
1.3 Privileges, struggles, and recognition of the civic communities
220
5
2 The Holy Roman Empire
225
31
2.1 Introduction: the state and cities in the German-speaking world
225
4
Thomas A. Brady, Jr.
2.1.1 Urban landscapes of the Holy Roman Empire
225
1
2.1.2 Cities as states
226
3
2.2 Germany
229
7
Gerhard Dilcher
2.2.1 State development, city leagues, and power struggles within cities
229
4
2.2.2 City resistance and the adoption of city law and value systems by the principalities
233
3
2.3 Cities and state-building in the south German-Swiss zone of the 'urban belt'
236
15
Thomas A. Brady, Jr.
2.3.1 Cities and states
237
5
2.3.2 Political conflict and integration
242
5
2.3.3 Shapes of political culture
247
2
2.3.4 Conclusion
249
2
2.4 The relationship between sovereign and city in the process of state development: the example of Koblenz
251
5
Gerhard Dilcher
3 The Low Countries
256
35
3.1 The impact of cities on state formation: three contrasting territories in the Low Countries, 1300-1500
256
16
Wim Blockmans
3.1.1 The scale of magnitude
257
2
3.1.2 Political institutions
259
2
3.1.3 The urban revolution in Flanders
261
2
3.1.4 Counterpoints: Brabant and Holland
263
1
3.1.5 A corporative state
264
3
3.1.6 Liaisons dangereuses
267
5
3.2 Popular participation in politics in the Dutch Republic
272
19
Henk van Nierop
3.2.1 Introduction
272
2
3.2.2 The Dutch state
274
2
3.2.3 The cities
276
4
3.2.4 Political culture
280
4
3.2.5 Petitions
284
4
3.2.6 Radical petitions
288
2
3.2.7 Conclusion
290
1
4 Italy
291
29
4.1 States in Tuscany and Veneto, 1200-1500
291
14
Ann Katherine Isaacs
4.2 Integration and resistance in Spanish Italy, 1500-1800
305
15
Aurelio Musi
4.2.1 Resistance and integration
305
1
4.2.2 Spanish Italy: a multiplicity of political formations
305
3
4.2.3 The Neapolitan path to the modern state
308
3
4.2.4 Sicilian regional polycentricity
311
2
4.2.5 The revolts in Spanish Italy
313
7
5 Conclusion
320
5
Thomas A. Brady, Jr.
Part VI Conclusion
325
14
Peter Blickle
1 The Common People and the Process of State Formation: Some Conclusions
325
14
1.1 Structures
326
3
1.2 Norms and values in the world of peasants and burghers
329
3
1.3 Possibilities for peasants and burghers to realize their norms and values in the political sphere
332
4
1.4 Modernization of the state by the subjects?
336
3
Bibliography
339
51
Contributors
390
3
Index
393