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This book is comprised of over 200 translated sources related to popular protest in Italy, France and Flanders from 1245 to 1424 . In particular, it focuses 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. The book documents the best-known revolt in France before the French Revolution, the Jacquerie. The book also focuses on the best known of the urban revolts of the fourteenth century, the Revolt of the Ciompi, which set off with a constitutional conflict in June 1378. It then views the 'cluster of revolts' of northern France and Flanders, 1378 to 1382, concentrating on the most important of these, the tax revolts of the Harelle in Rouen and the Maillotins or hammer men in Paris. It looks beyond the 'cluster' to the early fifteenth century.
This introduction presents an overview of the translated sources in the book. This book is comprised of over 200 translated sources related to popular protest in Italy, France and Flanders from 1245 to 1424 . In particular, it focuses 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.
This chapter comprises a wide range of documents on popular protest before the Black Death, 1245 to 1347 which embrace heretical movements in city and countryside and the most sophisticated industrial revolts found in these documents – strikes, illegal associations of workers, insurrections led by weavers and fullers, a general strike of all commoners, and a strike of rural labourers to achieve political ends.
Chapter II extends from 1348 to 1378, or just before the supposed cluster of revolts identified by Mollat and Wolff; it includes the Tuchins in the south of France and a ground-swell of revolts in Italy that reached their peak by the mid-1370s.
Chapter III documents the best-known revolt in France before the French Revolution – the Jacquerie – which spread from the Beauvaisis as far east as Bar on France’s frontier with the Holy Roman Empire but which lasted a mere two weeks, 28 May to 10 June 1358.
Chapter IV focuses on the best known of the urban revolts of the fourteenth century, the Revolt of the Ciompi, which set off with a constitutional conflict in June 1378, and whose regime in alliance with minor-guild artisans lasted until mid-January 1382.
Chapter V views the 'cluster of revolts' of northern France and Flanders, 1378 to 1382, concentrating on the most important of these, the tax revolts of the Harelle in Rouen and the Maillotins or hammer men in Paris.
This chapter looks beyong the 'cluster' to the early fifteenth century; it includes a Parisian student conflict against the troops of the duke of Savoy in 1404, the Parisian butchers' revolt and reforms of 1413 9the Cabochiennes, a working-class politician, who over a long period of time strove to convince his fellow workers to oust the city councillors at Châlons-en-Champagne, and widespread peasant uprisings in the territories of Parma, Florence and Ferrara.