Did inequality produce medieval revolt? The material position and political agency of textile workers during the Flemish Revolt of 1379-85 Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University
Over the past few decades there has been a tendency to focus on the political nature and cultural aspects of medieval collective action, rather than on poverty, inequality and other socio-economic causalities. Based on a detailed reinterpretation of the economic, political, social and material position of the textile workers who revolted in fourteenth-century Bruges, in the highly urbanized and economically developed county of Flanders, we ...