Cohn S.K. Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425

Harvard University Press, 2006. — 384 p. — ISBN: 9780674029675In the 1960s, works by Barrington Moore, Jr., Eric Hobsbawm, George Rude, E. P. Thompson, and others, coupled with the student movements of that decade, stimulated a new vogue for the study of comparative revolts in early modern, modern, and contemporary Europe and elsewhere. Curiously, the trend did not extend to medieval Europe, despite its periodic largescale revolts beginning in the thirteenth century and especially in the wake of the Black Death. Individual revolts — the Jacquerie (1358), the Florentine Ciompi (1378), the English Uprising of 1381, the Hussite rebellions of the first half of the fifteenth century, and the remensas in Spain — continue to receive detailed archival research and interpretation. But medievalists have been reluctant to venture beyond local settings and compare these movements across time or especially across linguistic and (later) national boundaries.