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Previous studies have focused on late medieval English parishes and public houses in early modern Bern/Bavaria. My current microhistorical project centres on the village of Gersau on Lake Lucerne, a self-governing mini-republic (with patronage rights over its own church) from the late Middle Ages to 1798. This parish of some 1000 souls, with no nobility and only loose ties to four Swiss Catholic cantons, provides a unique opportunity to study a genuinely ‘popular’ regime, i.e. early modern political, socio-economic and religious life with minimal pressure ‘from above’. Research questions include the (self-)perception of such an unusual socio-political unit; the (lack of) impact of general macro-historical processes like state formation, confessionalization and the rise of script/print; the emergence of early industry in a ‘backward’ Catholic/agricultural environment; the mental horizons of Gersau’s inhabitants; and the delicate balance between communal bonds and socio-political tensions. The empirical base consists of charters, laws and court records held in Gersau’s own archive and relevant holdings in the repositories of neighbouring cantons. Beat Kümin, June 2009  HYPERLINK "mailto:b.kumin@warwick.ac.uk" b.kumin@warwick.ac.uk NOP«¬Ü | ~ ˆ ¡ ¨ º  º â ! 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