Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext Draws new attention to popular protest in medieval English towns, away from the more frequently studied theme of rural revolt. Zusammenfassung Popular protests in medieval English towns were as frequent and as sophisticated! if not more so! as those in the countryside. This groundbreaking study refocuses attention on the leadership! social composition! organisation and motives of urban popular protest! revealing how its timing and character varied from events on the continent. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Aiton, Jr Cohn, Jr Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. Samuel K. Cohn, Samuel K. Cohn, Samuel K. Cohn Jr
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107529359
• ISBN: 978-1-107-52935-9
• No. of pages: 390
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; England, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), Medieval History, British & Irish history, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval