Town, Country, and Regions in Reformation Germany

Tom Scott Ph.D. (Cambridge) is Honorary Professor of History at the Institute of Reformation Studies in the University of St. Andrews.

‘This book offers superb regional histories exploring the often complex relationships between towns and their rural surroundings, as well as the role of the territories in the region. Together they demonstrate many factors that shaped interactions between burghers and peasants. In addition, they show the benefits that regional studies can offer scholars of the period. The author indeed achieves one of his stated goals for this collection: to offer a framework (or methodology) for understanding regional histories by providing opportunities to compare and contrast local experiences. (…)Overall there is rnuch to be gained by reading this collection; Scott provides a compelling critique of Blickle's Communal Reformation thesis and, perhaps more importantly, the essays use excellent local histories to compare and contrast experiences, encouraging readers to reevaluate their understanding of this region in the late medieval and early modern periods.’Michael S. Springer, Institute for European History, Mainz, Sixteenth Century Journal

• AcknowledgementsList of Illustrations, Maps, and TablesNote on UsageAuthor’s PrefaceIntroduction, Thomas A. Brady, JrPART I. TOWN AND COUNTRY BETWEEN REFORM AND REVOLT1. Reformation and Peasants’ War in Waldshut and Environs: A Structural Analysis2. The Communal Reformation between Town and Country3. The ‘Butzenkrieg’: The Rouffach Revolt of 15144. Freiburg and the Bundschuh5. From the Bundschuh to the Peasants’ War: From Revolutionary Conspiracy to the Revolution of the Common Man6. South-West German Towns in the Peasants’ War: Alliances between Opportunism and SolidarityPART II. ECONOMIC LANDSCAPES7. Economic Landscapes8. Town and Country in the German-speaking Lands, 1350–16009. Defining an Economic Region: The Southern Upper Rhine, 1450–160010. Medium-sized and Small Towns on the Upper Rhine in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries between Domination and Competition11. The Territorial Policy of Freiburg im Breisgau in the Later Middle AgesPART III. REGIONS AND LOCAL IDENTITIES12. Alsace as an Economic Bridging Landscape in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries13. The ‘Revolutionary of the Upper Rhine’ and Outer Austria. Visions of Reform between Empire and Territory14. Liberty and Community in Medieval Switzerland15. South-West German Serfdom in Comparative PerspectivePlaces of Original PublicationIndex of Names and PlacesIndex of Subjects