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

Acknowledgments; List of illustrations; Note on languages, orthography and abbreviations; Introduction: social order, politics, and political language in the Grisons, 1470?1520; 1. Communalism and other political models in Europe and the Grisons; 2. Rhaetia to 1520: geography, society, history; 3. Local practice and federal government in the Freestate; 4. From consolidation to communal politics, c. 1580?1620; 5. Elite power and popular constraint in sixteenth-century Rhaetia; 6. Reform, communal action and crisis, c. 1580?1620; 7. Political language and political cosmology during the crisis years, 1617?22; Conclusion: democracy in early modern Rhaetia.