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Author Cohn, Samuel Kline, Jr., author.

Title Lust for liberty : the politics of social revolt in medieval Europe, 1200-1425 : Italy, France, and Flanders / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr
Edition First Harvard University Press paperback edition
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2008
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 376 pages)
Contents Introduction -- Peasant revolts -- Economic revolts -- Varieties of revolt -- Leaders -- Women, ideology, and repression -- Communication and alliances -- Flags and words -- The Black Death and change over time -- A new appetite for liberty
Summary Aims to challenge long-standing views of popular medieval revolts. Comparing rebellions in northern and southern Europe over two centuries, this title analyses their causes and forms, their leadership, the role of women, and the suppression or success of these revolts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-357) and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR, viewed September 22, 2023)
Subject Revolutions -- Europe -- History
Social change -- Europe -- History
Civilization, Medieval.
Revolutions -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Insurgency -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Social change -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Insurgency
Civilization, Medieval
Revolutions
Social change
Jacquerie
Sozialer Wandel
Geschichtsschreibung
Unruhen
Aufstand
Opstanden.
Sociale situatie.
Europe
Frankreich
Flandern
Italien
Europa
Vlaanderen (België)
Frankrijk.
Italië.
Florenz -- Aufstand <1378-1382>
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674029675
0674029674