Popular Protest in Late-Medieval Europe: Italy, France and Flanders (Manchester Medieval Sources) - Softcover

Samuel Kline Jr Cohn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719067316 ISBN 13: 9780719067310

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2004

Synopsis

The documents in this stimulating volume span from 1245 to 1424 but focus on the 'contagion of rebellion' from 1355 to 1382 that followed in the wake of the plague. 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. This book will be essential reading for those seeking to better understand popular attitudes and protest in medieval Europe.

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Review:

An extraordinarily generous act of scholarship. ...an incredible compendium of sources on popular politics. This is a fabulously useful collection of documents. ...this is a great book, absolutely essential reading for social historians of the middle ages. --John H. Arnold, Birkbeck College University of London

About the Author:

Samuel Kline Cohn Jr is a Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow.

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0719067316
• ISBN 13: 9780719067310
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416