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Essays exploring the dynamics of rebellion across Europe - from Sweden and Slovakia to the Iberian Peninsula and Hungary - over five centuries.
Rebellion was a fundamental part of the political ecosystem of the Middle Ages. Medieval Europe witnessed numerous instances of noble rebellion, popular protest and communal resistance against political authority. However, most scholarship has focused on the causes and/or life cycle of the most famous individual movements, such as the Barons' War in England, the Hussites in Bohemia and the Burgundian-Armagnac conflict in France, and there has been relatively little comparative analysis of political protest across both time and "national" borders. Where it exists, it tends to favour a thematic approach and be narrowly focused in terms of geographical coverage.
Conversely, this book breaks new ground in its wide geographical and chronological range, from twelfth-century Sicily to late fifteenth-century Ireland, exploring the various forms that active resistance could take. Its essays offer fresh perspectives on rebellion: as a political act, its theoretical justifications, the role of language and propaganda, the royal counter-responses that it provoked, and its ramifications, both personal and communal. Together they shine a new light on the complex interrelationship between legal authority, violence and politics, and significantly enhance our understanding of rebellion during this period.
List of contents
Introduction: Studying Rebellion in Medieval Europe
Adrian Jobson, Harriet Kersey and Gordon McKelvie 1. Kingship as Contract in Latin Europe, c.1000-c.1250 -
Björn Weiler2. Towards a Framework for Rebellion in Twelfth-Century Sicily -
Philippa Byrne3. Noble Conflict and Rebellion in the Reign of Philippe Auguste -
Charlotte Pickard4. Rulers and Rebels: Rebellion in Medieval Germany -
Martin Kaufhold5. Extraordinarily Ordinary? Noblewomen and Rebellion in Thirteenth-Century England -
Harriet Kersey6. 'The Malice and Rebellion of Certain Welshmen': The Welsh Risings of 1294-1295 -
David Stephenson7. One Portuguese Rebel Heir: Arguments, Reasoning and Diplomatic Logic (1317-1324) -
Diana Martins8.
Lo Juzgaba por Traydor: Rebellion, Treason and Punishment during the Reign of Alfonso XI of Castile (1312-1350) -
Fernando Arias Guillén9. Hostages and Exiles: The Townsmen of Bruges and Ypres and the Rebellion of Maritime Flanders, 1323-1328 -
Milan Pajic10. Deposing Kings and Legitimating Rebellion in Fourteenth-Century Sweden: Allegory, Satire and Political Criticism -
Kim Bergqvist11. The
Städtekrieg (1387-1389): The Swabian League of Cities in Rebellion? -
Daniel Gneckow12. Rebellious Bonds in Late Medieval Scotland -
Gordon McKelvie13. Rebellious Propaganda in the War of the Roses -
Michael Hicks14. The Scythian Mars in Trouble: The 1471 Revolt against Matthias Corvinus -
Tamás Pálosfalvi15. Comital Rebellion and Rehabilitation in Late Medieval Ireland: The Gaelic Dimension and the Crisis of the 1490s -
Simon Egan Index
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Edited by Adrian Jobson, Harriet Kersey and Gordon McKelvie
