Justine Firnhaber-Baker is Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews and a former fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University. Her work focuses on violence, politics, and law in late medieval France from a social historical perspective. Her previous book, Violence and the State in Languedoc, was published by Cambridge University Press. Her articles have appeared in Past & Present, Speculum, French History, and The Journal of Medieval History.

• Introduction. Telling Stories: Sources and Approaches 1: Complaints: The Aftermath of Poitiers 2: New Marvels: Turning the World Upside Down 3: An Unheard of Thing: The Massacre at Saint-Leu-d'Esserent 4: All Masters: From Massacre to Movement 5: Noisy Terrors: The Violence of the Jacquerie 6: Captains and Assemblies: The Organization of the Jacquerie 7: The Non-Nobles: Rebels and their Communities 8: Strong Enough to Fight the Nobles: The Battles of Meaux and Mello-Clermont 9: Hatred and Malevolence: The Counter-Jacquerie 10: Good Love and Hard Words: The Legacy of Revolt Conclusion: Forgetting and Remembering the Jacquerie

This is the first dedicated monograph to be published on the northern French peasant revolt of 1358 known as the Jacquerie since Siméon Luce's École des chartes thesis of 1859...A monographic approach enables Justine Firnhaber Baker to show how the political was dominant in this revolt, even though it was not controlled by political professionals in Paris.

Justine Firnhaber-Baker is Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews and a former fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University. Her work focuses on violence, politics, and law in late medieval France from a social historical perspective. Her previous book, Violence and the State in Languedoc, was published by Cambridge University Press. Her articles have appeared in Past & Present, Speculum, French History, and The Journal of Medieval History.

• Introduction. Telling Stories: Sources and Approaches 1: Complaints: The Aftermath of Poitiers 2: New Marvels: Turning the World Upside Down 3: An Unheard of Thing: The Massacre at Saint-Leu-d'Esserent 4: All Masters: From Massacre to Movement 5: Noisy Terrors: The Violence of the Jacquerie 6: Captains and Assemblies: The Organization of the Jacquerie 7: The Non-Nobles: Rebels and their Communities 8: Strong Enough to Fight the Nobles: The Battles of Meaux and Mello-Clermont 9: Hatred and Malevolence: The Counter-Jacquerie 10: Good Love and Hard Words: The Legacy of Revolt Conclusion: Forgetting and Remembering the Jacquerie

This is the first dedicated monograph to be published on the northern French peasant revolt of 1358 known as the Jacquerie since Siméon Luce's École des chartes thesis of 1859...A monographic approach enables Justine Firnhaber Baker to show how the political was dominant in this revolt, even though it was not controlled by political professionals in Paris.

Justine Firnhaber-Baker is Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews and a former fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University. Her work focuses on violence, politics, and law in late medieval France from a social historical perspective. Her previous book, Violence and the State in Languedoc, was published by Cambridge University Press. Her articles have appeared in Past & Present, Speculum, French History, and The Journal of Medieval History.

• Introduction. Telling Stories: Sources and Approaches 1: Complaints: The Aftermath of Poitiers 2: New Marvels: Turning the World Upside Down 3: An Unheard of Thing: The Massacre at Saint-Leu-d'Esserent 4: All Masters: From Massacre to Movement 5: Noisy Terrors: The Violence of the Jacquerie 6: Captains and Assemblies: The Organization of the Jacquerie 7: The Non-Nobles: Rebels and their Communities 8: Strong Enough to Fight the Nobles: The Battles of Meaux and Mello-Clermont 9: Hatred and Malevolence: The Counter-Jacquerie 10: Good Love and Hard Words: The Legacy of Revolt Conclusion: Forgetting and Remembering the Jacquerie

This is the first dedicated monograph to be published on the northern French peasant revolt of 1358 known as the Jacquerie since Siméon Luce's École des chartes thesis of 1859...A monographic approach enables Justine Firnhaber Baker to show how the political was dominant in this revolt, even though it was not controlled by political professionals in Paris.