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Freiburg and the Breisgau: Town-Country Relations in the Age of Reformation and Peasants' War
This regional study examines the declining fortunes of Freiburg, a craft town on the Upper Rhine, and its relations with the surrounding Breisgau village communities. Here, Scott uses historical and economic geography to examine the town and surrounding villages as a totality rather than as isolated independent communities, focusing on the troubled period from 1450 to 1530 when the territorial expansion of Freiburg threatened the surrounding Breisgau villages and pitted burgher against peasant in a struggle for economic and political survival.
278 pages, Hardcover
First published March 26, 1987
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About the author
Tom Scott
15 books6 followers(NB. There are several authors with the same name.) This the author page for Tom Scott, historian, MA, PhD, LittD, FRSA. Honorary Professor, University of St Andrews.
Before joining the Institute of Reformation Studies in St Andrews in 2004, Tom Scott was based in the School of History at the University of Liverpool. Before that he was a research fellow at Clare College, Cambridge.
Tom Scott has worked principally on social and economic issues in the German Reformation, including the Peasants’ War, and more generally on town-country relations, regional economic systems, and regional identity. In 1997 his monograph Regional Identity and Economic Change: The Upper Rhine, 1450‒1600 was published by Oxford University Press. A volume of fifteen essays on Town, Country, and Regions in Reformation Germany followed in 2005 (Brill Publishers). More recently he has published The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600: Hinterland‒Territory‒Region (OUP, 2012), and, in the St Andrews Reformation Studies Institute series, The Early Reformation in Germany between Secular Impact and Radical Vision (Ashgate Publishers, 2013). He has just published The Swiss and their Neighbours, 1460-1560. Between Accommodation and Aggression (OUP, 2017).
As well as major articles on ‘The Agrarian West’ (Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 2015) and ‘The Economic Policies of the Regional City-States of Renaissance Italy’ (Quaderni Storici, 145 (2014)), he has recently written surveys on Unresolved Problems in the German Peasants’ War, the Urban Reformation in Germany, and ‘The Problem of Nationalism in the Early Reformation’ (Renaissance and Reformation, Autumn 2015), as well as contributing to the forum on Peter Wilson’s Heart of Europe (Central European History, Autumn 2017).
His current research project focuses on the politics of the Swiss Confederation in the first half of the sixteenth century.
Before joining the Institute of Reformation Studies in St Andrews in 2004, Tom Scott was based in the School of History at the University of Liverpool. Before that he was a research fellow at Clare College, Cambridge.
Tom Scott has worked principally on social and economic issues in the German Reformation, including the Peasants’ War, and more generally on town-country relations, regional economic systems, and regional identity. In 1997 his monograph Regional Identity and Economic Change: The Upper Rhine, 1450‒1600 was published by Oxford University Press. A volume of fifteen essays on Town, Country, and Regions in Reformation Germany followed in 2005 (Brill Publishers). More recently he has published The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600: Hinterland‒Territory‒Region (OUP, 2012), and, in the St Andrews Reformation Studies Institute series, The Early Reformation in Germany between Secular Impact and Radical Vision (Ashgate Publishers, 2013). He has just published The Swiss and their Neighbours, 1460-1560. Between Accommodation and Aggression (OUP, 2017).
As well as major articles on ‘The Agrarian West’ (Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 2015) and ‘The Economic Policies of the Regional City-States of Renaissance Italy’ (Quaderni Storici, 145 (2014)), he has recently written surveys on Unresolved Problems in the German Peasants’ War, the Urban Reformation in Germany, and ‘The Problem of Nationalism in the Early Reformation’ (Renaissance and Reformation, Autumn 2015), as well as contributing to the forum on Peter Wilson’s Heart of Europe (Central European History, Autumn 2017).
His current research project focuses on the politics of the Swiss Confederation in the first half of the sixteenth century.
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April 2, 2024
Interesting study, that casts doubt on Blickle's thesis of the German Peasant War as "revolution of the Common Man", but fails to do so convincingly. Nonetheless a brilliant study of the interaction between town and country in Germany in the 14th, 15th and 16th century.
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