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Sto caricando le informazioni... Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425di Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Cohn has looked through thousands of chronicles and court records to document thousands of medieval peasant revolts. He discusses the pros and cons of various ways of classifying these rebellions. He notes a major increase in number and scale of rebellions after the Black Death, and argues (a little weakly, I think) that what unites the post-plague rebellions is the peasants' desire for liberty - that is, there are certain rights (which Cohn never defines very well) that the peasants want. If the conclusion is a little weak, the rest of the book is quite strong, and really puts these rebellions into perspective. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)303.640940902Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Social Processes Conflict and conflict resolution ; Violence Civil war and revolutionClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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