Part I. The Setting: 1. Introduction: questions and sources; 2. Class struggle in English towns: workers and bosses; 3. Varieties of revolt; Part II. Crown and Town: Strife with Secular Authority: 4. Revolts against the Crown: crises of kingship from John Lackland to Henry VI; 5. The Black Death and urban protest; 6. Urban revolts against the Crown outside London: the case of Bristol; 7. A wave of insurrection, 1312–18?; 8. Tax revolts; 9. Revolts: poor against rich; Part III. Church and City: 10. Revolts in monastic boroughs; 11. Church struggles in towns other than monastic boroughs; 12. Urban conflict against bishops and universities; 13. Urban risings of hatred: Jews, foreigners, and heretics; 14. Conclusion; Bibliography.
Draws new attention to popular protest in medieval English towns, away from the more frequently studied theme of rural revolt.
Samuel K. Cohn, Jr is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow. His work over the past decade has concentrated on plague and the history of popular insurrection and his previous publications include Cultures of Plague: Medical Thinking at the End of the Renaissance (2010) and Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200–1425 (2006).
'A step forward and bound to stimulate and facilitate further
study.' The Times Literary Supplement
'What we have here is an important book based on thorough research
that never fails to enlighten and absorb the reader.' Sean McGlynn,
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'This is a bold book, making large claims. Cohn provides brief
accounts of numerous outbreaks of unrest in medieval towns which
will be interesting to local historians.' Heather Falvey, The
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