Communities and Conflicts in the Alps from the Late Middle Ages to Early Modernity.

This volume brings together the proceedings of the international conference held in Trento in 2014, which included collaboration between Italian and Japanese research projects. The volume focuses on communities, their spaces and political cohabitation as well as their relationships with religious life, economic exchange, and personal networks in the Alpine area between the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. They illustrate the openness of the Alpine area, where conflicts were integrated in an interaction between different political, social, and cultural spheres.

Yoshihisa Hattori
Community, Communication, and Political Integration in the Late Medieval Alpine Regions. Survey from a Comparative Viewpoint

Marco Bellabarba
Legal Transfer and Connected Histories. The Trentino and Tyrolean Legal Models of the Early 1500s

Luigi Provero
A Local Political Sphere. Communities and Individuals in the Western Alps (Thirteenth Century)

Taku Minagawa
Border Conflicts between Bohemia and Bavaria and Their Solutions. Comparative Considerations

Emanuele Curzel
Alpine Village Communities, Ecclesiastic Institutions, and Clergy in Conflict. The Late Middle Ages

Hannes Obermair
How to Record a Conflict? The Communities of the German Part of the Diocese of Trent during the Late Middle Ages

Carlo Taviani
Hunting Witches in Fiemme Valley (1504–1506)

Massimo Della Misericordia
Ritual Surveys. Conflict, Articulation, and Composition of Local Societies within the Sacred Sphere in the Lombardy Alps during the Late Middle Ages

Vincenzo Lavenia
The Alpine Model of Witchcraft. The Italian Context in the Early Modern Period

Katia Occhi
Resources, Mercantile Networks, and Communities in the Southeastern Alps in the Early Modern Period

Marcello Bonazza
Tax, Property, and Community. Mapping Fiscal Microconflictualism in Tyrol in the Early Modern Period

Hitomi Sato
Towns and Nobles in South Tyrol (Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries)

Alessandro Paris
Aristocratic Prestige and Military Function. The Counts of Arco between the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries

Toshiyuki Tanaka
The District Court and the Nobility of the Basel-Land Region (Fifteenth Century)

Authors

Hitomi Sato is Associate Professor at Konan University (Kobe, Japan). She received Ph. D degree (Hakase) in Letters from Kyoto University in 2008, then Ph. D (dottore di ricerca) in Medieval History from the University of Milan in 2012. Her major research interests focus on political history of the Late Medieval Italian peninsula and Alpine regions. She is also interested in comparative history, particularly among European and East Asian regions. Among her publications is »Chūsei itaria no chiiki to kokka: funsō to heiwa no seijishakaishi« (Italian parallel title: »Stato e Società locali nell’Italia del Medioevo. La storia politica e sociale dei conflitti e della pace«), Kyoto University Press, Kyoto, 2012.

Marco Bellabarba is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Trent, Italy, and Deputy Director of the German-Italian Historical Institute. His main research fields are the political and institutional history of the Alpine area and the history of justice in early modern age (»La giustizia ai confini. Il principato vescovile di Trento nella prima età moderna«, Bologna 1986, »Storia della giustizia nell’Italia moderna«, Roma-Bari 2008). He is also currently working on the history of the Habsburg Empire in the Nineteenth century and, at the same time, on the formation of the national identities in the Habsburg provinces (with B. Mazohl, M. Verga and R. Stauber, eds, »Gli imperi dopo l’Impero nell’Europa del XIX secolo«, Bologna 2008; »L’impero asburgico«, Bologna 2014; with A. Merlotti eds., »Stato sabaudo e Sacro Romano Impero«, Bologna 2014).

• Edited by Marco Bellabarba
• Edited by Hannes Obermair
• Edited by Hitomi Sato