Social Groups, Political Power and Institutions II, c.1300–c.1500

Dumolyn, Jan; Buylaert, Frederik; Dupont, Guy; Haemers, Jelle; Ramandt, Andy

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“…This lacuna is caused by the nature of historical research by both urban and rural historians, who either focussed on limited case studies (both in time and space: often one city and its immediate hinterland across one or two centuries) or grand narratives scratching the surface. 22 We possess many decent publications on particular cities and their specific privileges from the first half of the 20th century onwards (e.g. Huys, De Brouwer and later Monballyu, Castelain and others).…”

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Subjects’ strategies against lordship in Burgundian and Habsburg Flanders

De Waele

2024

Rural History

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From the thirteenth until the 18th century, the county of Flanders knew a special citizen status for rural residents. Country dwellers, normally residing under the jurisdiction and fiscality of lordships, could register themselves as external citizens or ‘outburghers’. Outburghership has primarily been researched within the context of state building and urban studies. This contribution prioritizes the perspective of the countryside. Studies on premodern Flanders have shown that the counts and cities tried to undermine the power of local lords by providing as many seigneurial subjects as possible with fiscal and judicial exemptions to the lords’ justice and taxes. The accessibility of outburghership and its varying appeal along time and space has not been adequately researched. This study argues that the heyday of outburghership in Flanders was between 1300 and 1550. After 1600, outburghership endured as defence mechanism against seigneurial lordship until both institutions met their demise in 1795.

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Subjects’ strategies against lordship in Burgundian and Habsburg Flanders

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2024

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“…From the beginning of the fourteenth century, the commercial classes (comprised of rich burghers, brokers, hostellers and international merchants) often worked together with affluent members of the craft guilds to oppose the craftsmen and artisans of lesser economic and political status. 41 For many of them, the disruptions caused by the civil war were not only harmful to their business interests but also to their position in the social and political hierarchy of the city. The fact that some working in luxury crafts, as well as members of the commercial class, did nevertheless join the ranks of the rebels is probably partly due to the allure of the pro-English politics of Philip of Artevelde, rebel leader of Ghent, but the same also often happened during other medieval revolts.…”

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Did inequality produce medieval revolt? The material position and political agency of textile workers during the Flemish Revolt of 1379–1385

2021

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Over the past few decades there has been a tendency to focus on the political nature and cultural aspects of medieval collective action, rather than on poverty, inequality and other socioeconomic causalities. Based on a detailed re-interpretation of the economic, political, social, and material position of the textile workers who revolted in fourteenth-century Bruges, in the highly urbanized and economically developed county of Flanders, we propose to revaluate inequality and relative deprivation as important driving forces of political upheaval in the medieval city. After the Black Death of 1349, social tensions rose in the main industrial sectors of the urban economy in Flanders. Evidence from the confiscation records drawn up during the repression of a major series of revolts in Flemish towns during the years 1379-1385 shows that while the rebels could hardly be characterized as destitute, the material living conditions of textile workers did not match their contemporaries' standards. Contrary to the hypothesis of the 'golden age of labour', and at odds with the dominant interpretation of late medieval revolt as being primarily 'political', we argue that the revolt was more closely tied to economic and social changes during the post-Plague period.Keywords Inequality; textile industry; material culture; revolt; medieval In discussions about the growing inequality in many areas of the world today, attention is often drawn to the risk of political instability and the violent uprisings it could cause. 1 The danger of

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The Genealogy of Trust

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The Trust Revolution

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Social Groups, Political Power and Institutions II, c.1300–c.1500

Cited by 4 publications

References 28 publications

Subjects’ strategies against lordship in Burgundian and Habsburg Flanders

Subjects’ strategies against lordship in Burgundian and Habsburg Flanders

Did inequality produce medieval revolt? The material position and political agency of textile workers during the Flemish Revolt of 1379–1385

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