TY - JOUR
AU - Epurescu-Pascovici, Ionuț
AB - This is a thought-provoking book, written in a very readable, indeed conversational, style that allows the reader to share the author’s enthusiasm. Julia Barrow university of l eeds Justine Firnhaber-Baker. The Jacquerie of 1358: A French Peasants’ Revolt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 336. Cloth $105.00. The Jacquerie rose to fame in the late eighteenth century and became a common term to refer to vio- lent peasant uprisings, yet Justine Firnhaber-Baker’s monograph is the first book-length treatment of the 1358 uprising published in English. This is a detailed and meticulous work rooted in an intimate knowledge diverse motivations and objectives, which moreover of the primary sources—chiefly of two types: chron- evolved from late May to July 1358. This interest in the icles and the remission letters granted to the partici- historically contingent nature of the uprising is evident pants in both the Jacquerie and its repression by the in the author ’s efforts to reconstruct the chronology of nobles—that constructively engages with the consid- even relatively minor events. The movement’s “trans- erable body of scholarship on the 1358 uprising and formational moment[s]” are discussed in detail on the late-medieval revolts more broadly. basis of the chronicles and the narrative parts of 
TI - Justine Firnhaber-Baker. The Jacquerie of 1358: A French Peasants’ Revolt.
JF - American Historical Review
DO - 10.1093/ahr/rhad566
DA - 2024-03-13
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SP - 339
EP - 340
VL - 129
IS - 1
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