Samuel Kline Cohn, Douglas K. Aiton, Jr. Samuel K. Cohn

Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns

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Produktbeschreibung

Draws new attention to popular protest in medieval English towns, away from the more frequently studied theme of rural revolt.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 716g
• ISBN-13: 9781107027800
• ISBN-10: 1107027802
• Artikelnr.: 36137573

Autorenporträt

Samuel K. Cohn, Jr is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow. His work over the past decade has concentrated on plague and the history of popular insurrection and his previous publications include Cultures of Plague: Medical Thinking at the End of the Renaissance (2010) and Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425 (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Setting: 1. Introduction: questions and sources
2. Class struggle in English towns: workers and bosses
3. Varieties of revolt
Part II. Crown and Town: Strife with Secular Authority: 4. Revolts against the Crown: crises of kingship from John Lackland to Henry VI
5. The Black Death and urban protest
6. Urban revolts against the Crown outside London: the case of Bristol
7. A wave of insurrection, 1312-18?
8. Tax revolts
9. Revolts: poor against rich
Part III. Church and City: 10. Revolts in monastic boroughs
11. Church struggles in towns other than monastic boroughs
12. Urban conflict against bishops and universities
13. Urban risings of hatred: Jews, foreigners, and heretics
14. Conclusion
Bibliography.