Popular Protest in Late-Medieval Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popular Protest in Late-Medieval Europe write by Samuel Kline Cohn. This book was released on 2004. Popular Protest in Late-Medieval Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The documents in this fascinating volume focus on the "contagion of rebellion" that followed the Black Death, which ravaged Europe in the years between 1355 and 1382. They comprise a diversity of sources and cover a variety of forms of popular protest in different social, political and economic settings. Their authors include revolutionaries, the artistocracy, merchants and representatives from the church. Of more than 200 documents presented here, most have been translated into English for the first time, providing students and scholars with a new opportunity to compare social movements across Europe over two centuries.
Popular Culture and Popular Protest in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Popular Culture and Popular Protest in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popular Culture and Popular Protest in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe write by Michael Mullett. This book was released on 2021-09-05. Popular Culture and Popular Protest in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, first published in 1987, looks at the culture of the masses and at the political language and actions of the crowd. It examines the enduring traits of a European demotic culture that was largely non-literate, and it then goes on to show how the political outlook of the lower classes arose from the moral attitudes contained in their culture, a culture that was deeply suffused by Christianity. Unlike upper-class culture, popular culture is resistant to change and has to be studied over a long period – in this case the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Because its themes – popular social values, riot and revolt – are pervasive over both time and space, the book’s geographical coverage is extensive, taking in most of western and central Europe.
Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns
Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns write by Samuel Kline Cohn. This book was released on 2013. Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Draws new attention to popular protest in medieval English towns, away from the more frequently studied theme of rural revolt.
The Black Death
The Black Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Black Death write by . This book was released on 2013-01-01. The Black Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This series provides texts central to medieval studies courses and focuses upon the diverse cultural, social and political conditions that affected the functioning of all levels of medieval society. Translations are accompanied by introductory and explanatory material and each volume includes a comprehensive guide to the sources' interpretation, including discussion of critical linguistic problems and an assessment of recent research on the topics covered. From 1348 to 1350 Europe was devastated by an epidemic that left between a third and one half of the population dead. This source book traces, through contemporary writings, the calamitous impact of the Black Death in Europe, with a particular emphasis on its spread across England from 1348 to 1349. Rosemary Horrox surveys contemporary attempts to explain the plague, which was universally regarded as an expression of divine vengeance for the sins of humankind. Moralists all had their particular targets for criticism. However, this emphasis on divine chastisement did not preclude attempts to explain the plague in medical or scientific terms. Also, there was a widespread belief that human agencies had been involved, and such scapegoats as foreigners, the poor and Jews were all accused of poisoning wells. The final section of the book charts the social and psychological impact of the plague, and its effect on the late-medieval economy.
Lust for Liberty
Lust for Liberty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lust for Liberty write by Samuel Kline COHN. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Lust for Liberty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lust for Liberty challenges long-standing views of popular medieval revolts. Comparing rebellions in northern and southern Europe over two centuries, Samuel Cohn analyzes their causes and forms, their leadership, the role of women, and the suppression or success of these revolts. Popular revolts were remarkably common--not the last resort of desperate people. Leaders were largely workers, artisans, and peasants. Over 90 percent of the uprisings pitted ordinary people against the state and were fought over political rights--regarding citizenship, governmental offices, the barriers of ancient hierarchies--rather than rents, food prices, or working conditions. After the Black Death, the connection of the word liberty with revolts increased fivefold, and its meaning became more closely tied with notions of equality instead of privilege. The book offers a new interpretation of the Black Death and the increase of and change in popular revolt from the mid-1350s to the early fifteenth century. Instead of structural explanations based on economic, demographic, and political models, this book turns to the actors themselves--peasants, artisans, and bourgeois--finding that the plagues wrought a new urgency for social and political change and a new self- and class-confidence in the efficacy of collective action.
