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fourteenth century’ – the English peasant war or uprising, which lasted for less than a month in all, and for only six days in the capital, as a challenge to royal power (10–15 June). For that revolt, students are well armed with the excellent and thorough collection compiled by R. B. Dobson, The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 , which has rightly become standard reading for most courses on the social history
After the 1380s the rhythms of revolt north and south of the Alps again went their separate ways. The duke of Berry may have brutally smashed the Tuchins of the Massif Centrale in 1384; yet the Hundred Years War, poorly enforced truces, and the mountainous terrain, allowed townsmen, rustics, dissatisfied noblemen, and ex-soldiers to continue to form armed bands in pursuit of
who will come to see you shortly, to your very great harm. King of England, if you do not do this, I am commander of war, and in whatever place I come upon your men in France, I will make them leave, whether they wish to or not. And if they do not wish to obey, I will have them all killed; I have been sent here by God, the King of Heaven, to drive you out of all France, body for body. 18 And if
was to be defended by a virgin sent by God, and that the task had been committed to the weaker sex so that the French might not trust in their own virtue with pride, as was their habit; in any case a girl whose advice was so full of sense could not be regarded as mad. This opinion prevailed and they entrusted the matter of Orléans to the girl [ puella ]. A woman was made the commander of the war. Arms
) the death of the king, his consort, or eldest son; 3 violating his consort, eldest unmarried daughter or his eldest son’s wife; levying war against the king in his realm or adhering to the king’s enemies; counterfeiting the great seal or the coinage of the realm; killing the chancellor, treasurer or judges in open court. [ 3.15 , 3.16 ] The political intrigues that
, where a period of relative social peace may have followed the Jacquerie until the crisis of the French state at the end of Charles V’s reign. 1 More clearly than in 1358 these revolts, 1378–82, arose from the demands of war, forcing the king to exact new taxes. 2 The first wave of revolt erupted in the last years of Charles V’s reign, when with rapid succession he
of Augsburg 45 had the role of chief adviser of the empress, which greatly displeased some of the princes of the kingdom, who would not tolerate his arrogance. 1059. In this year there were many deaths among men and a sickness among cattle. War broke out between the Milanese and the Pavians and many died on both sides. 46 Rudolf, duke of the Swabians married Matilda, the sister of King Henry. 47 In
local princes. Among the latter were the princes of Salerno and Capua, the duke of Naples, the sons of Melus, who had a stronghold at Comino in the north of the principality of Capua, and even the monastery of Montecassino. Civil wars and outside pressure from Byzantium and the Saracens led to an insatiable need for soldiers to take part in the endemic fighting. In c . 1030 a group of Norman
finance that resulted from the plague and the consequential halving of the tax base. The combination of political instability, roaming brigands, war, and above all new taxes to be divided amongst many fewer also weighed heavily on the mountainous areas of southern France. Soldiers, peasants, and townsmen formed bands to redress personal grievances and pursue economic advantage in this milieu of hardship
Guelfs did not like having to share office with the Ghibellines, given recent events such as Charles d’Anjou’s loss of Sicily, the arrival in Tuscany of an imperial vicar, and the wars begun in Romagna by the … Ghibellines. So, for the salvation and well-being of the city, they annulled the office of the Fourteen and created a new office to govern the city, and this was called the Priors of the Guilds. The