179 pages, wrappers, very good. From the back cover: The peasant revolt of Flanders was the earliest and most significant of the peasant movements of the 14th century, far surpassing the better-known French Jacquerie of 1358 and the English revolt in 1381 in terms of scale, organization, duration and impact on domestic and external affairs. Indeed, nothing matched it before the German Peasants' War of 1525. Nevertheless, it remains largely unknown outside the Dutch/Flemish speaking world. In A Plague of Insurrection, William H. TeBrake has written the first full-length account of the rebellion. Beyond providing a narrative account of the revolt, TeBrake analyzes the events within the broader context of the social history and political culture of peasants in late medieval Europe

FLANDERS EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES HISTORY PEASANT UPRISINGS REVOLTS POLITICS