Communes and Conflict by Jan Dumolyn

Communes and Conflict by Jan Dumolyn

In Communes and Conflict, Jan Dumolyn and Jelle Haemers deftly explore the urban rebellions that regularly erupted in Flanders between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. They analyse not only how these rebellions were sparked and repressed, but also how they shaped the culture and identity of Flemish townspeople.

Drawing from a wide range of theoretical methods and concepts, including those of discourse analysis, semiotics, speech acts, collective memory and material cultural studies, the authors return to key Marxist questions on ideology, labour and class interest to map the perspectives of the rebels, the urban patriciate and the Flemish and Burgundian nobility.

"Strictly speaking, [Communes and Conflict] is not a new monograph.. but it is a remarkably coherent whole. Due to its quality, it certainly makes an important contribution to the urban history of the Low Countries, social groups in Flanders (with interesting digressions on the rural classes) and phenomena such as opposition and revolt ... Because the book brings together fifteen years of publications, it is methodologically very valuable. It is like a flower that slowly opens until the petals show all their splendor. It is fascinating and instructive to see how the authors' conceptual foundation, based on archive material, is strengthened and expanded with each new contribution." —Michel de Waha, The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History

Jan Dumolyn is a professor of history at Ghent University. He has published extensively on late medieval labour history, urban rebellion, politics, material culture and law, as well as more widely on Marxist theory and contemporary class struggle. This includes books on the Bruges uprising of 1436–1438, on Burgundian local governance, court societies and state-formation and on struggles from "the bottom-up" against globalizing neoliberalism.. Jelle Haemers is a professor of medieval history at KU Leuven. He has written three books on urban revolts in the county of Flanders. In recent years his research interests have widened to encompass the social history of the late medieval town, notably in the Low Countries (1100–1600). He has also published on the use of social theory in history, the late medieval nobility, and women's history.

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ISBN 13	9798888903285
Title	Communes and Conflict
Author	Jan Dumolyn
Series	Historical Materialism Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Haymarket Books
Year published	2024-09-24
Number of pages	488
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