TY - BOOK ID - 1612779 TI - Lust for liberty: the politics of social revolt in medieval Europe, 1200-1425: Italy, France, and Flanders PY - 2006 SN - 0674021622 9780674021624 0674029674 0674030389 0674262735 PB - Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press DB - UniCat KW - History of Europe KW - anno 1200-1499 KW - Revolutions KW - Social change KW - Civilization, Medieval KW - Révolutions KW - Changement social KW - Civilisation médiévale KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Civilization, Medieval. KW - History. KW - Révolutions KW - Civilisation médiévale KW - Change, Social KW - Cultural change KW - Cultural transformation KW - Societal change KW - Socio-cultural change KW - Social history KW - Social evolution KW - Medieval civilization KW - Middle Ages KW - Civilization KW - Chivalry KW - Renaissance UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1612779 AB - 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. ER -