Table of Contents

Introduction.

1. Strikes and Salvation at Lyon.

2. Poor Relief, Humanism, and Heresy.

3. City Women and Religious Change.

4. The Reasons of Misrule.

5. Women on Top.

6. The Rites of Violence.

7. Printing and the People.

8. Proverbial Wisdom and Popular Errors.

Notes.

Index.

Reviews

'One of the most brilliant and original historians active... Each of these essays bears the imprint of Davis's distinctive style, a style which is characterized above all by the exceptional range of perspectives which she brings to bear on whatever subject she discusses.' Journal of Modern History 'No historian of our time has a more immediate and vital sense of the past than Dr Davis, and none has been more ingenious and persistent in putting the smallest piece of evidence to work in order to recover the sights, the sounds, and the sensations of a world that we have lost.' J H Elliott, The Sixteenth-Century Journal