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Samuel
K. Cohn Jr.
Popular
protest in late-medieval Europe: Italy, France and Flanders.
Manchester
University Press, 2004.
Manchester
Medieval Sources series.
176pp.
Publisher's
recommended price
Hardback ISBN
0719067308
£60.00
Paperback
ISBN 0719067316 £16.99
The
documents in
this fascinating volume focus on the 'contagion of rebellion' that
followed
the Black Death, which ravaged Europe in the years between 1355 and
1382.
They comprise a diversity of sources and cover a variety of forms of
popular
protest in different social, political and economic settings. Their
authors
range across a wide political and intellectual horizon and include
revolutionaries,
the artistocracy, merchants and representatives from the Church. They
tell
gripping and often gruesome stories of personal and collective
violence,
anguish, anger, terror, bravery and foolishness.
Of
over 200 documents
presented here, most have been translated into English for the first
time,
providing students and scholars with a new opportunity to compare
social
movements across Europe over two centuries, allowing a re-evaluation of
pre-industrial revolts, the Black Death and its consequences for
political
culture and action.
Contents
1. Before
the Black Death, 1245 to 1348; 2. From the Black Death to 1378; 3. The
Jacquerie; 4. The Revolt of the Ciompi, 1378-1382; 5. The cluster north
of the Alps, 1378-82; Epilogue: After the cluster, 1382 to 1423.
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