The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt

Firnhaber-Baker, Justine; Schoenaers, Dirk

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“…In traditional, late nineteenth-and early twentiethcentury political history, ordinary people were not taken seriously as political actors: if 'the masses' acted, they did so instinctively and spontaneously, never from any clear political motive or agenda. 40 This top-down approach changed with the rise of social history in the 1950s and 1960s, when historians influenced by Marxist scholarship sought to better understand riots and crowd actions. The earliest social histories, by Marxist historians like Eric Hobsbawm and George Rudé, emphasised the need for a 'history from below': history should no longer be focused on the (nation-)state and its rulers, but on ordinary people.…”

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“…The scant evidence for liberty or equality as a motivation in French rebellions is greatly outweighed by the evidence that all of the large-scale rural revolts which took place during the Hundred Years War were incited primarily by resistance to military violence or to taxation linked to military violence 105 . Although the Jacquerie took place in areas that had not recently been subject to military incursions, its provocateurs used the threat of such violence as a means to motivate participation and in some cases to excuse their actions after the fact 106 . The Tuchinat in the Auvergne from the 1360s was primarily a self-defence movement, protecting non-combatants and communities from English forces but also from the pillaging of freebooting mercenaries 107 .…”

Section: France: Failed Reciprocity and The Hundred Years Warmentioning

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Two Kinds of Freedom: Language and Practice in Late Medieval Rural Revolts

Firnhaber-Baker

2020

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Este artículo analiza el papel de la libertad como motivación para la rebelión rural en la Europa del Norte entre 1200 y 1450. Se centra en la comparación entre el levantamiento inglés de 1381 y las revueltas en Francia y añade comparaciones adicionales con otras regiones. Si bien los discursos sobre la libertad fueron importantes en los textos cronisticos y para los propios rebeldes, la mayor parte de los rebeldes no articularon sus reclamaciones en términos de libertad. El último epigrafe demuestra que aunque las demandas de libertad fueran poco frecuentes durante las revueltas, las redes sociales a través de las que se organizaron los levantamientos, revelan que las prácticas comunales rurales constituían un tipo de libertad que facultaba a los campesinos para implicarse en la accion socio-política.

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“…(ii) Rent seeking also concerns self-employed unskilled or semi-skilled workers (mainly small artisans, temporary workers, migrant workers) without regular earnings, paid either on a daily basis, or for a specific task, or for short-term contracts, who also revolted against inappropriate wages. (Among the abundant historical literature, see e.g., Halphen, 1964;Le Goff, 1964, 1991Mollat & Wolff, 1973;Hilton, 1995;Richardson, 2004;Ogilvie, 2011;Boissonnade, 2013;Cohn, 2012;Firnhaber-Baker & Schoenaers, 2016).…”

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Urban Conflict, Rent Seeking, and Corruption Economic and Political Institutions in a Historical Perspective

Challier¹

2018

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This paper is an empirical analysis to explore the relationships between urban conflict and both rent seeking and corruption. It examines social disturbances in medieval France through a sample of twelve towns examined over the period 1270-1399 in a real context of informational asymmetries, commitment problems, and issues indivisibilities. As regards the economic corruption class, it is found that townspeople rebel more often and more intensely against the extortion of funds carried out by policy makers than against the embezzlement of a part of these funds. As to the political corruption class, the findings highlight that abuse of power against municipalities is identified in more social unrest than influence peddling against these local institutions. Furthermore, it is shown that rent-seeking-related policies (like arbitrary actions limiting property rights, economic rules-based policies, and targeted political measures) have less influence on urban conflict than corrupt policies do. These findings produce insights that apply beyond the historical context and analysis of the paper. Situations presenting over-indebted towns despite overtaxed people disturb also modern democracies.

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The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt

Cited by 23 publications

References 8 publications

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Two Kinds of Freedom: Language and Practice in Late Medieval Rural Revolts

Urban Conflict, Rent Seeking, and Corruption Economic and Political Institutions in a Historical Perspective

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