Contents List of figures Preface Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: medieval revolt in context Justine Firnhaber-Baker Part One ~ Conceptualizing Revolt: Then and Now 1. Writing revolt in the early Roman empire Myles Lavan 2. Takehan , cokerulle , and mutemaque : naming collective action in the later medieval Low Countries Jan Dumolyn and Jelle Haemers 3. The eponymous Jacquerie: making revolt mean some things Justine Firnhaber-Baker 4. 'Great and horrible rumour': shaping the English Revolt of 1381 Andrew Prescott 5. 'United we stand?' Representing revolt in the historiography of Brabant and Holland (14th-15th c.) Dirk Schoenaers 6. An exemplary revolt of the central Middle Ages? Echoes of the first Lombard League across the Christian world around the year 1200 Gianluca Raccagni Part Two ~ Socio-Political Contexts: Identity, Motivation, and Mobilization 7.

Looking forward: peasant revolts in Europe, 600-1200 Chris Wickham 8. Invoking and constructing legitimacy: rebels in the late medieval European and Islamic worlds Patrick Lantschner 9. Rebellion and the law in fifteenth-century English towns Eliza Hartrich 10. Women in revolt in medieval and early modern Europe Samuel Cohn, jr. 11. Popular movements and elite leadership: exploring a late medieval conundrum in cities of the Low Countries and Germany Justine Smithuis 12. Revolts and wars, corporations and leagues: remembering and communicating urban uprisings in the medieval Empire Gisela Naegle Part Three ~ Communication: Language, Performance, and Violence 13. A dossier of peasant and seigneurial violence Paul Freedman 14.

Violence as a political language: the uses and misuses of violence in late medieval French and English popular rebellions Vincent Challet 15. Developing strategies of protest in late medieval Sicily Fabrizio Titone 16. Cultures of surveillance in late medieval English towns: the monitoring of speech and the fear of revolt Christian Liddy 17. Interpreting large-scale revolts: some evidence from the War of the Communities of Castile Hipólito Rafael Oliva Herrer 18. Prophetic rebellions: radical urban theopolitics in the era of the Reformations Phillip Haberkern Conclusion John Watts Index.