Les pratiques du cri au Moyen Âge

Lett, Didier; Offenstadt, Nicolas

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“…The cry in these situations announced a situation of official public emergency and prompted a community response. 54 This was a recognized and crucial aspect of judicial procedure, although authorities were also concerned about the abuse of this power in inappropriate situations. 55 The cry in revolt scenarios was an extension of a normal procedure for community defense.…”

Section: Clamor and Crymentioning

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Murmur, Clamor, and Tumult

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2015

Radical History Review

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There has been a striking continuity in some of the basic sonic features of popular revolt and protest since the Middle Ages. In the Middle Ages, as now, people descended into the streets en masse, marched, chanted slogans, shouted angry cries, and smashed things. As the recent Occupy and Arab Spring movements show, collectively seizing public space by imposing people's bodies and voices onto that space remains powerful today much as it did seven centuries ago. At the same time, the relationship between these immediate sonic events and their perception by those who were not direct witnesses is quite different. If the protesters at the 1968 Democratic Convention could chant "The whole world is watching" to Chicago police to remind them that they were on a global stage, the cries of the rebels in Bruges in 1302, London in 1381, or Paris in 1418 were seen -or, rather, heard -solely by those in proximity to the action.The tension between the immediate event and mediated experience exists, of course, in the modern era, but in the Middle Ages these moments of noise and clamor within the vital oral public sphere were at a particular disconnect with existing accounts of them, recorded in chronicles or court documents composed by clerical authors and others hostile to such popular expressions of political will. Because writing in the preprint culture of the Middle Ages was dominated by those generally (although not exclusively) sympathetic to power-holding elites, Radical History ReviewPublished by Duke University Press

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Section: Clamor and Crymentioning

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Murmur, Clamor, and Tumult

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2015

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“…Criers carried the colors and wore the official clothing of the nobleman, king or government they worked for, and the ritualised announcements extended the otherwise restricted actions of governing elites into public soundscapes. 25 Castilian kings routinely used their criers to announce changes in royal policy, as well as public punishments to encourage compliance. 26 In Valencia, the criers also came accompanied (again, quite typically) by drums and trumpetsevery payment to the town crier included extra wages for the musicians who accompanied him.…”

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“…In other cities, criers repeated announcements in multiple languages or on multiple days to insure maximum transmission of their information. 31 Beyond the routine pronouncements of urban regulations, the crier publicised an assortment of other types of information. Large gatherings for ceremonial events such as the entry into the city of members of the royal family appear routinely if infrequently.…”

Section: Disseminating Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performative openness and governmental secrecy in fourteenth century Valencia

Franklin-Lyons

2023

Cont. Change

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In the fourteenth century, the urban council of Valencia tried to balance maintaining the secrecy of their government with a perceived need to publicise their actions. The council knew from experience that information vacuums could be dangerous. Feuds between noble groups made the urban council wary of the secret actions of council members. Food shortages and the anti-Jewish riots in 1391 also pressured the council to project a public face of action to quell urban unrest. In response, the city enacted a performative publicity: a public show of information dissemination concerning the normal operations of government that still occluded the actual discussions of the council.

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“…The practice of crying alarm, commoengeroep in Dutch or le cri hahay in Liégois, could be used by citizens when crying for help during an attack. 82 Rebels employed it as a way to cry out for rebellion, asking their neighbours for help because they felt they were wronged by the government. 83 Other tactics included sounding the bells on the belfry or drumming.…”

Section: Changing Space With Resistance: Tactiquesmentioning

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Making space for resistance: the spatiality of popular protest in the late medieval Southern Low Countries

Serneels¹

2021

Urban History

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Using several cities in the late medieval Southern Low Countries as a case-study, this article deals with the relation between urban space and different forms of political protest. Urban commoners were aware of the powerful symbolism of certain places in the late medieval city and used that to their advantage during large-scale revolts. Yet the use of space was not limited to the dramatic occupations during these revolts. This article uncovers a wide range of strategies and tactics that common people used to act within given spaces to make their resistance possible. A spatial analysis of several instances of large- and smaller-scale resistance shows that space was intrinsically connected with how and when any form of resistance developed in late medieval cities. As such, the article aims to contribute to the literature on the importance of space in late medieval urban politics, in which attention to smaller-scale practices has been very limited.

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Les pratiques du cri au Moyen Âge

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Murmur, Clamor, and Tumult

Murmur, Clamor, and Tumult

Performative openness and governmental secrecy in fourteenth century Valencia

Making space for resistance: the spatiality of popular protest in the late medieval Southern Low Countries

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