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One of the great epics of Europe's history, the story of the rise
and rise of the Capetian dynasty dominates the Middle Ages.
Starting in the tenth century from an insecure foothold around
Paris, they built a nation that stretched from the Atlantic to the
Mediterranean and from the Rhône to the Pyrenees. They founded
practices and institutions that endured until the Revolution,
transformed Paris from a muddy backwater to a splendid metropole,
and popularised the fleur-de-lys, the lily, as the emblem of
France. Time and again, their opponents woefully misjudged who they
were up against as, through guile, ruthlessness, luck and marriage
the Capetians disposed of them all. This is their story, the story
of the most powerful kingdom in Christendom. It is a tale of
religious upheaval, heroism, adulterous affairs, holy wars, pogroms
and persecution. From Hugh Capet to Eleanor of Aquitaine, the
Capetians were men and women of vision and ambition, who considered
themselves chosen by God to fulfil a great destiny. If they were
mistaken in their assumptions and merciless in their methods, in
one respect they were right. They did not simply rule France: they
created it. House of Lilies is a highly enjoyable, state-of-the-art
account of this extraordinary sequence of events, set against one
of the great eras in the history of western Europe, a time of
remarkable culture efflorescence. Justine Firnhaber-Baker
brilliantly conveys not only the sheer glamour of the French court,
but also the intellectual achievements, the battles, and the
centrality of religion, as well as the series of catastrophes that
led to the dynasty's ultimate demise.
The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt charts the
history of medieval rebellion from Spain to Bohemia and from Italy
to England, and includes chapters spanning the centuries between
Imperial Rome and the Reformation. Drawing together an
international group of leading scholars, chapters consider how
uprisings worked, why they happened, whom they implicated, what
they meant to contemporaries, and how we might understand them now.
This collection builds upon new approaches to political history and
communication, and provides new insights into revolt as integral to
medieval political life. Drawing upon research from the social
sciences and literary theory, the essays use revolts and their
sources to explore questions of meaning and communication, identity
and mobilization, the use of violence and the construction of
power. The authors emphasize historical actors' agency, but argue
that access to these actors and their actions is mediated and often
obscured by the texts that report them. Supported by an
introduction and conclusion which survey the previous
historiography of medieval revolt and envisage future directions in
the field, The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt will
be an essential reference for students and scholars of medieval
political history.
This collection of essays is not just about the existence of
difference in medieval France, but about the variety of ways that
difference could create solidarity and sympathy among groups, as
well as disaffection and disgust. Essays address inclusion and
exclusion from a variety of perspectives, ranging from ethnic and
linguistic difference in Charlemagne's court, to lewd sculpture in
Bearn, to prostitution and destitution in Paris. Arranged
thematically, the sections progress from the discussion of
tolerance and intolerance, through the clearly defined notion of
foreignness, to the complex study of stranger identity in the
medieval period. As a whole the volume presents a fresh, intriguing
perspective on questions of exclusion and belonging in the medieval
world and will interest medievalists across disciplines.
The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt charts the
history of medieval rebellion from Spain to Bohemia and from Italy
to England, and includes chapters spanning the centuries between
Imperial Rome and the Reformation. Drawing together an
international group of leading scholars, chapters consider how
uprisings worked, why they happened, whom they implicated, what
they meant to contemporaries, and how we might understand them now.
This collection builds upon new approaches to political history and
communication, and provides new insights into revolt as integral to
medieval political life. Drawing upon research from the social
sciences and literary theory, the essays use revolts and their
sources to explore questions of meaning and communication, identity
and mobilization, the use of violence and the construction of
power. The authors emphasize historical actors' agency, but argue
that access to these actors and their actions is mediated and often
obscured by the texts that report them. Supported by an
introduction and conclusion which survey the previous
historiography of medieval revolt and envisage future directions in
the field, The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt will
be an essential reference for students and scholars of medieval
political history.
The Jacquerie of 1358 is one of the most famous and mysterious
peasant uprisings of the Middle Ages. Beginning in a small village
but eventually overrunning most of northern France, the Jacquerie
rebels destroyed noble castles and killed dozens of noblemen before
being put down in a bloody wave of suppression. The revolt occurred
in the wake of the Black Death and during the Hundred Years War,
and it was closely connected to a rebellion in Paris against the
French crown. The Jacquerie of 1358 resolves long-standing
controversies about whether the revolt was just an irrational
explosion of peasant hatred or simply an extension of the Parisian
revolt. It shows that these opposing conclusions are based on the
illusory assumption that the revolt was a unified movement with a
single goal. In fact, the Jacquerie has to be understood as a
constellation of many events that evolved over time. It involved
thousands of people, who understood what they were doing in
different and changing ways. The story of the Jacquerie is about
how individuals and communities navigated their specific political,
social, and military dilemmas, how they reacted to events as they
unfolded, and how they chose to remember (or to forget) in its
aftermath. The Jacquerie Revolt of 1358 rewrites the narrative of
this tumultuous period and gives special attention to how violence
and social relationships were harnessed to mobilize popular
rebellion.
Although it is often assumed that resurgent royal government
eliminated so-called 'private warfare', the French judicial
archives reveal nearly one hundred such wars waged in Languedoc and
the Auvergne between the mid-thirteenth and the end of the
fourteenth century. Royal administrators often intervened in these
wars, but not always in order to suppress 'private violence' in
favour of 'public justice'. They frequently recognised elites' own
power and legitimate prerogatives, and elites were often fully
complicit with royal intervention. Much of the engagement between
royal officers and local elites came through informal processes of
negotiation and settlement, rather than through the imposition of
official justice. The expansion of royal authority was due as much
to local cooperation as to conflict, a fact that ensured its
survival during the fourteenth-century crises. This book thus
provides a narrative of the rise of the French state and a fresh
perspective on aristocratic violence.
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