Popular protest in late medieval English towns
Contrary to received opinion, revolts and 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 varied nature of popular movements in towns from Carlisle to Dover and from th...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2013
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: questions and sources
- Class struggle in English towns: workers and bosses
- Varieties of revolt
- Revolts against the Crown: crises of kingship from John Lackland to Henry VI
- The Black Death and urban protest
- Urban revolts against the Crown outside London: the case of Bristol
- A wave of insurrection, 1312-1318?
- Tax revolts
- Revolts: poor against rich
- Revolts in monastic boroughs
- Church struggles in towns other than monastic boroughs
- Urban conflict against bishops and universities
- Urban risings of hatred: Jews, foreigners, and heretics
- Conclusion