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  Jacquerie
The Jacquerie was a popular revolt in late medieval Europe that took place in northern France in 1358, during the Hundred Years' War.
These rebellions were known as the Jacquerie after the peasant revolutionary popularly known as Jacques Bonhomme, or "simple Jack," and they were quickly put down by the nobility.
The word "Jacquerie" became a synonym for peasant uprisings and for centuries the nobility lived in fear of a repeat performance.
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 Rebellion - Definition of Rebellion by Webster's Online Dictionary
No sooner is the standard of rebellion displayed than men of desperate principles resort to it.
If the rebellion amount to treason, it is punished by the laws of the United States with death.
A commission of rebellion is the name of a writ issuing out of chancery to compel the defendant to appear.
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 Encyclopedia: History of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Jacquerie in Froissarts chronicles The Jacquerie was a popular revolt in late medieval Europe that took place in northern France in 1358, during the Hundred Years War.
Events Rebellion of the Catholic League against King Henry III of France, in revenge for his murder of Duke Henry of Guise.
An English-backed Huguenot rebellion (1625-1628) defeated, France intervened directly (1635) in the wider European conflict following her ally (Protestant) Sweden's failure to build upon initial success.
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 Rebellion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Münster Rebellion was an attempt by radical Anabaptists to establish a theocracy in Münster.
Popular revolts in late medieval Europe were uprisings and rebellions by peasants in the countryside, or the bourgeois in towns, against nobles and kings during the upheavals of the 14th through early 16th centuries.
Blending music criticism, cultural studies, and gender theory, this analysis traces the precursors and prototypes for rock rebellion, examines the diverse forms of misogyny embedded in particular rock subcultures, evaluates gender, identity uncertainty and other themes, and examines female rockers and their music from their earliest incarnations to the present.
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 to 1650 Lecture 11
The Jacquerie was a rebellion not only against the government, but also against the power of the aristocrats.
In 1358, the year of the Jacquerie, artisans and the poor in Paris protested against low wages and high rents (which made the Jacquerie all the more threatening); the crown responded by executing apparent rebel leaders in Paris, Toulouse, and other cities.
While some of these rebellions had clear political aims, they are probably best seem as expressions of outrage and frustration at gross social inequities in times of extreme hardship.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Jacquerie
Jacquerie, uprising of French peasants in 1358, during the Hundred Years' War; the name is derived from Jacques Bonhomme, a collective name given to...
In the end, however, the peasants were not able to retain most of their gains from the higher price of labor.
France : warfare: Jacquerie – Charles V (of France)
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 Monthly Review: Mau Mau - 30 years later - aftermath of the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya that lasted from 1952 until 1960 is virtually unknown in Britain today.
The rebellion was a serious challenge to the position of British imperialism, not only in Kenya but throughout Africa, and it was accordingly crushed with massive repression and bloodshed.
What turned Mau Mau from being merely a peasant jacquerie into a full-scale rebellion against colonial rule was the involvement of the fl working class of Nairobi.
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 <nettime> COUP >< REVOLUTION a false dichotomy (in reference to the Ukra
Each historical moment which gets a name with the word 'revolution' may be linked to thousands of other moments with that same word, still all those revolutions will have settings in time, space and mood that are unique.
Jacquerie, riot, rebellion, insurrection, upheaval, rising, revolt, boycott, strike are some of the words closely related to the word 'revolution', often seen as the first steps in a serious of events that culminate in a change of power relations, temporal or lasting.
The words used for these first steps are mostly associated with actions of the oppressed, those who are not in power, lower classes, proletariat, 'the people', antipodes to rulers, oppressors, dictators and the like.
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 Information on rebellion
Among the Romans rebellion was originally a revolt or open resistance to their government by nations that had been subdued in war.
[1913 Webster] No sooner is the standard of rebellion displayed than men of desperate principles resort to it.
rebellion n 1: refusal to accept some authority or code or convention; "each generation must have its own rebellion"; "his body was in rebellion against fatigue" 2: organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another [syn: insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising]
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 C'est la Guerre - Parade Ground - les Jacquerie
They are fairly cheap, can be good at storming a given terrain feature, and provide a convenient set of fortifications to secure one flank of your army.
The actual Jacquerie movement seems to have not lasted more then several weeks from May 21, 1358 when it started until June 9th and 10th when they were defeated decisively at Meaux and Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, so I’m not even sure why the list allows you to run them from 1356 until 1360.
The connection of Enguerrand de Coucy with putting down the rebellion is interesting to note.
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 Lecture 30: In the Wake of the Black Death
Governments, controlled as they were by the wealthiest nobility, made every attempt to fix prices and wages as well as regulate the movement of workers in their country.
For instance, they demanded that employers had to insure them work, that they would not do anything injurious to the workers and finally, that employers would permit workers their right to enter a guild.
By 1382, the wealthy manufacturing families of Florence put down this rebellion of skilled workers by force and the Ciompi or forced to accept all previous arrangements.
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 April 2: Changes in the church (Mendicants; Revival of persecution of heresy); Hundred Years’ War
The cause of the Hundred Years’ War was the hereditary claim the King of England had over the French throne.
The French peasants who had been paying for the war broke out in a rebellion called the Jacquerie.
These peasants – the Jacquerie – were brutally put down by the French aristocracy.
www.luc.edu /faculty/ldossey/hundredyears-religion.htm   (2345 words)

  
 Ciompi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
After the Black Death, similar upheavals in the second half of the 14th century, in which the most downtrodden classes struck out for fairer conditions, widely disturbed European polities and were looked on by the Church and governing classes as reversals of God's natural order.
Compare Jack Cade's rebellion of 1381 in England and the Jacquerie of 1358 in France.
See also popular revolt in late medieval Europe.
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 Encyclopedia: Black-Death   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Fernand Braudel (August 24, 1902–November 27, 1985) was a historian who revolutionized the 20th century study of the discipline by considering the effects of economics and geography on global history, a prominent member of the Annales School of historiography, who concentrated on meticulous historical analysis in the social sciences.
Popular revolts in late medieval Europe were uprisings and rebellions by (typically) peasants in the countryside, or the bourgeois in towns, against nobles and kings during the upheavals of the 14th through early 16th centuries.
In late medieval Florence, the disenfranchised ciompi (wool carders) were a class of labourers in the textile industry who were not represented by any guild.
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 Enguerrand de Couci, 7th Earl of Bedford
In November 1355 Enguerrand aged 15 was part of the army that marched north against the English in the battalion of Moreau de fiennes with his guardian Matthieu de Roye Master of Cross bowmen, Geoffrey de Charny, 'the perfect knight', and Marshal Arnoul d'Audrehem.
In 1358 Enguerrand took part with Charles of Navarre in crushing the French rebellion called the Jacquerie, and it is said that he took part in the massacre of every rebel Jacque or peasant that they could find.
In 1382 the rebellion of the Maillotins took place in Paris, France, against taxes and Enguerrand took part in negotiating and putting down the rebellion.
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 Medieval Sourcebook: Jean Froissart: on the Jacquerie, 1358   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Medieval Sourcebook: Jean Froissart: on the Jacquerie, 1358
The period following the Black Death saw a number of political and social upheavals, caused by the disease itself, as well as wars and other insecurities.
That in France in 1358 was known as the Jacquerie - since a common name for a peasant was "Jacques".
cas.memphis.edu /~jmblythe/3370/FroissartJacquerie.htm   (434 words)

  
 Thesis on Effects of the Plague
The nobles quickly rejected hopes for a better life; many commoners then rose in rebellion.
The French Jacquerie of 1358, the English Peasant's Rebellion in 1381, the Catalonian Rebellion in 1395, were all reactions by the peasants.
There was a huge decline in the birth rate.
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 JACQUERIE, THE - Online Information article about JACQUERIE, THE
JACQUERIE, THE, an insurrection of the See also:
Simeon Luce, Histoire de la Jacquerie (See also:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
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 Re: The History and Heritage Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
And as for rebellion, it should be noted that it was more or less continually attempted through the middle ages, sometimes with success, sometimes without, usually with tragedy as the only outcome.
The desperation of the peasants had to be extreme to continue to make this attempt..
Hans Delbruck's Medieval Warfare is just one good cold military oriented account of the period I've read which documents scores of small uprisings, and dozens of outright wars between peasants of a given reigion, or burghers or a particular town, against their lord and / or bishop (often the same thing)
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 Twentieth Century Atlas - Historical Body Count
European Wars, Tyrants, Rebellions and Massacres (800-1700 CE)
Before the rise of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and the rest of the gang, these atrocities were the bywords of barbarism.
Razin Rebellion in Volga area: 100,000 serfs d.
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 RuneQuest Daily: re: RQ Daily
The techniques used by the peasant Jacquerie rebellion in 14th-century France is probably inappropriate to Lunar training, but certainly bears repeating.
Both techniques required waiting until the knight had completed his charge and was engaged in melee, slashing with sword or axe while the horse kicked and bit.
The Jacquerie methods, and Nils Hammer's method of combining a tower shield and greatsword both are pretty much only good vs. heavy or medium cavalry.
glorantha.temppeli.org /digest/ndaily/1994.01/2718.html   (1527 words)

  
 PlanetPapers - The Effects of The Black Death on the Economic and Social Life of Europe
When these hopes for a better life were curtly dismissed, or savagely repressed by the nobility, many commoners rose in rebellion.
The French Jacquerie of 1358, the English Peasant's Rebellion in 1381, the Catalonian Rebellion in 1395, and many revolts in Germany, all serve to show how seriously the mortality had disrupted economic and social relations.
But in the end the disintegration of the manor system of managing agriculture began.
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 History 140 Spring 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
One of the signs that peasants and the less elite in towns were gaining influence are the rebellions that resulted when their higher expectations were not met (eg.
the Jacquerie, the English Peasant Revolt of 1381 and the Ciompi Rebellion in Florence).
Despite these advances, though, European society remained very unstable, with continuing outbreaks of plague, increasingly violent wars and a high degree of social tension resulting from competition between elites on the one hand and the middling and poorer sort on the other.
www.cameron.edu /~dougc/euroexperienceoutline4.htm   (2052 words)

  
 Froissart: More Rebellion in Paris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Now consider what a sad devilment it would have been, if the king of France, and the gallant chivalry with which he was accompanied, had been defeated in Flanders.
It may readily be supposed, that then all the nobility would have been destroyed in France, as well as in other places; for the Jacquerie were never so ferocious as they would at such a time have been.
In like manner the peasants began to rebel at Rheims, at Châlons in Champagne, and down the river Marne, and to menace those gentlemen, ladies and children who had remained at home.
www.nipissingu.ca /department/history/muhlberger/froissart/parisreb.htm   (315 words)

  
 Dickens (Charles) Tale of Two Cities Summary
The poor of the St. Antoine area of Paris lap up wine spilled (like blood) in the street-- misery abounds.
Thérèse Defarge knitting and the three "Jacques" (pseudonyms recalling the 14C Jacquerie peasant rebellion).
The wine-shop keeper, Ernest Defarge (a former servant of Manette), leads Lorry and Lucie to the garret where he has locked in Dr. Manette for his own safety.
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 Define Rebellion : powered by In Dictionary (InDicitonary.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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 Mike's History p 106 - The Jacquerie. French peasant rebellion. Froissart, selections.
(The Jacquerie was the name given to a a great French peasant rebellion in 1358.
Thus they gathered together without any other counsel, and without any armor saving with staves and knives, and so went to the house of a knight dwelling nearby and broke up his house and slew the knight and the lady and all his children great and small and brent [burnt] his house.
they chose him that was the most ungracious of all others and they called him King Jacques Goodman [Bonhomme], and so thereby they were called companions of the Jacquerie....
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 biblography
The fiefs themselves were hereditary but if heirs should fail the land reverted directly to the lord: similarly, if the heir was a minor, the rights and profits of administration returned to the lord during his minority.
All rebellion or disaffection automatically carried the penalty of forfeiture.
But if the universities and the traders of the cities started the cry, it was sure to find, and did find, a strong echo in the masses of the country people, the peasants, who everywhere had to struggle for their very existence with their feudal lords, spiritual and temporal.
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 Friends Of Fargone - Survival by Pat Jacquerie and Lexa Reiss
Since neither of them were giving a centimeter in the argument, it had become a considerable pile of debris.
Avon glared at her, picked up his fork and stabbed the pasta, as if the food were a substitute for a knife in her flesh.
Then we find out what's happening with the rebellion, if there still is one, and decide what to do next on the basis of reason, not emotion."
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 History 1A seminar worksheet - Order and Rebellion II
History 1A seminar worksheet - Order and Rebellion II History 1A Seminar Worksheet
ORDER AND REBELLION II Essay question 1: To what extent were the popular revolts of late medieval Europe a re-action to the growing power of the state?
Creating the Florentine State: Peasants in Rebellion 1348-1434 (1999), especially pt.
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 lastpart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
King John's military failures, his stringent taxation, and his abuse of privileges provoked his barons to rebellion.
The Magna Carta was the springboard for opponents of the royal prerogative during the parliamentary rebellion of the early 17th century.
The charter was buttressed in 1628 by the Petition of Right and in 1689 by the Bill of Rights, to form the platform for parliamentary superiority over the Crown and to give documentary authority for the rule of law in England.
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