A plague of insurrection : popular politics and peasant revolt in Flanders, 1323-1328
Beginning as a series of scattered rural riots in late 1323, peasant insurrection escalated into a rebellion that dominated public affairs in Flanders. Following their own leaders, peasants defied the authority of the count of Flanders by driving his officials and their aristocratic allies from the countryside.
Print Book, English, ©1993
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, ©1993
History
x, 170 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
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Introduction: Peasant Unrest in Flanders and Europe
1. Flanders and Its People on the Eve of Revolt
2. For a World Without Corruption
3. For a World Without Privilege
4. Stalemate, Invasion, and Victors' Vengeance
5. Ordinary People in a Changing World
Appendix A: Economic and Social Conditions of the Rebels
Appendix B: Peasant Captains, 1323-1328