By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the 5th-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014, this study challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics.
By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the 5th-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014, this study challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics.
The documents in this stimulating volume span from 1245 to 1424 but focus on the 'contagion of rebellion' from 1355 to 1382 that followed in the wake of the plague. They comprise a diversity of sources and cover a variety of forms of popular protest in different social, political and economic settings. Their authors range across a wide political and intellectual horizon and include revolutionaries, the artistocracy, merchants and representativ...
Popular protests in medieval English towns were as frequent and as sophisticated, if not more so, as those in the countryside. This groundbreaking study refocuses attention on the leadership, social composition, organisation and motives of urban popular protest, revealing how its timing and character varied from events on the continent.
