The Routledge history handbook of medieval revolt / edited by Justine Firnhaber-Baker with Dirk Schoenaers

"The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt charts the history of medieval rebellion from Spain to Bohemia and from Italy to England, and includes chapters spanning the centuries between Imperial Rome and the Reformation. Drawing together an international group of leading scholars, chapters consider how uprisings worked, why they happened, whom they implicated, what they meant to contemporaries, and how we might understand them now"--Provided by publisher

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Introduction: Medieval revolt in context / Justine Firnhaber-Baker -- Part One. Conceptualizing revolt : then and now -- Writing revolt in the early Roman Empire / Myles Lavan -- Takehan, cokerulle, and mutemaque : naming collective action in the later medieval Low Countries / Jan Dumolyn and Jelle Haemers -- The eponymous Jacquerie : making revolt mean some things / Justine Firnhaber-Baker -- "Great and horrible rumour" : shaping the English Revolt of 1381 / Andrew Prescott -- "United we stand?" : representing revolt in the historiography of Brabant and Holland (14th-15th c.) / Dirk Schoenaers -- An exemplary revolt of the central Middle Ages? : echoes of the first Lombard League across the Christian world around the year 1200 / Gianluca Raccagni -- Part Two. Socio-political contexts : identity, motivation, and mobilization -- Looking forward : peasant revolts in Europe, 600-1200 / Chris Wickham -- Invoking and constructing legitimacy : rebels in the late medieval European and Islamic worlds / Patrick Lantschner -- Rebellion and the law in fifteenth-century English towns / Eliza Hartrich -- Women in revolt in medieval and early modern Europe / Samuel Cohn, Jr. -- Popular movements and elite leadership : exploring a late medieval conundrum in cities of the Low Countries and Germany / Justine Smithuis -- Revolts and wars, corporations and leagues : remembering and communicating urban uprisings in the medieval empire / Gisela Naegle -- Part Three. Communication : language, performance, and violence -- A dossier of peasant and seigneurial violence / Paul Freedman -- Violence as a political language : the uses and misuses of violence in late medieval French and English popular rebellions / Vincent Challet -- Developing strategies of protest in late medieval Sicily / Fabrizio Titone -- Cultures of surveillance in late medieval English towns : the monitoring of speech and the fear of revolt / Christian Liddy -- Interpreting large-scale revolts : some evidence from the war of the communities of Castile / Hipólito Rafael Oliva Herrer -- Prophetic rebellions : radical urban theopolitics in the era of the Reformations / Phillip Haberkern -- Conclusion / John Watts