Program booklet April 2015

Medieval Revolts: Comparative Perspectives II
St Andrews
17–18 April 2015
Medieval Revolts: Comparative Perspectives
69–71 South Street
St Andrews
17–18 April 2015
Speakers List
Vincent Challet
Jan Dumolyn & Jelle Haemers
Justine Firnhaber-Baker
Eliza Hartrich
Patrick Lantschner
Christian Liddy
Rafael Oliva Herrera
Andrew Prescott
Dirk Schoenaers
Fabrizio Titone
Chris Wickham
Made possible by the support of
The Arts and Humanities Research Council and
The St Andrews School of History
Friday, 17 April
Saturday, 18 April
09.00-09.30: Coffee and registration
09.00-09.30: Coffee
09.30-09.45: Welcome and introduction
09.45-10.45: Chris Wickham (Oxford)
Looking Forward: Peasant Revolts in Europe 600-1250
10.45-11.45: Jan Dumolyn & Jelle Haemers (Ghent – Leuven)
Takehan, Cokerulle, and Mutemaque. Naming Collective Action in the Later
Medieval Low Countries
11.45-12.15: Coffee
12.15-13.15: Dirk Schoenaers (St. Andrews)
United We Stand? A Comparative Approach to Urban Uprising in the Regional
Historiography of the Burgundian Low Countries (1434-1494)
09.30-10.30: Fabrizio Titone (Universidad del País Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz)
Developing languages of protest in late medieval Sicily
10.30-11.30: Vincent Challet (Montpellier)
Violence as a Political Language : Uses and Misuses of Violence in Popular
Rebellion Context (Europe, XIVth-XVth centuries)
11.30-12.00: Coffee
12.00-13.00: Justine Firnhaber-Baker (St Andrews)
The Eponymous Jacquerie: The Politics and Perceptions of Medieval Rebellion
13.00-14.30: Lunch
13.15-14.15: Lunch
14.30-15.30: Andrew Prescott (Glasgow)
The Shape of Revolt: The Case of 1381
14.15-15.15: Christian Liddy (Durham)
Secrecy and Propaganda: What Did Ordinary Citizens Know about Politics?
15.30-16.30: Closing remarks
15.15-15.30: Coffee
19.30: Dinner [Maisha, College Street]
15.30-16.30: Eliza Hartrich (Oxford)
Riot, Rebellion, and the Law in Fifteenth-Century English Towns: A ReInterpretation
16.30-17.30: Rafael Oliva Herrera (Sevilla)
Interpreting Large Scale Revolts: Some Evidence from the War of the Communities
of Castile
19.30: Dinner [Byre Theatre, Abbey Street]