IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 1035: Peasant Movements, Resistance, and Revolts: Societal Crisis across Medieval Europe, I
Wednesday 3 July 2024, 09:00-10:30
| Organiser: | Hugo Nicholas Small, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Caroline Goodson, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 1035-a | Resisting Unfreedom: A Window on the Logic of Rural Domination in Post-Carolingian France (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Economics - General, Economics - Rural and Social History |
| Paper 1035-b | Wine, Women, and the Devil: Silencing Contesting Voices in Early Medieval Dispute Records from the North of the Iberian Peninsula (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Daily Life, Economics - Rural and Social History |
| Paper 1035-c | Amidst War and a Rising State: An Analysis of Norwegian Peasant Revolts, c. 1200-1217 (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural and Social History |
| Abstract | The following two sessions aim to discuss peasant movements, revolts and acts of resistance, violent or otherwise, as forms of class struggle, in which the peasantry actively attempted to combat the coercive power and socio-economic exploitation of their lords and improve its own conditions. Peasant movements of this sort often represented major moments of societal crisis, shaking the foundations of the medieval socio-economic order which was underpinned by the exploitative relations between peasants and lords. The sessions will examine this topic from a variety of times and locations across Europe, analyzing these movements' goals, effects and outcomes. In this first part the discussion will revolve around the resistance to unfreedom by peasant communities in post-Carolingian France; early-medieval local disputes and conflicts between peasants and elite groups in written records from the northern regions of the Iberian Peninsula and on the Eastern Norwegian peasant revolt of 1200. |