Abegg-Stiftung Bern in Riggisberg

Geneva was forced to pay Bern substantial military reparations; moreover, it struggled to reclaim the vidomnat. Only in August 1536 was its Burgrecht with Bern renewed. In 1538 it ...

In 1508 a Savoy official Jean Dufour produced a forged will purporting to have been drawn up by Duke Charles I in 1489, which assigned staggering sums to Bern and Fribourg as a rew...

In 1532 Guillaume Farel began Reforming preaching in Geneva. Fribourg’s Catholicism estranged it from Geneva (and Lausanne, where there was evangelically tinged hostility towards t...

Savoy’s aggression towards Geneva devolved upon the League of the Spoon, a band of Savoyard noblemen. The bishop hoped to shore up his dwindling authority by joining the Burgrecht ...

Innovation promises dynamism and technical progress, new products and new markets. However, it also entails new conflicts and challenges for the law: on the one hand, the law shoul...