This article examines the political discourse of urban dwellers in the late Middle Ages in particular and the public dissent of urban citizens in general. It argues that citizens who were punished for public verbal abuse were not so much criminals as stated by the city council, but rather expressed political ideas or even organized resistance. Sometimes a personal quarrel between a representative from the local authority and a city inhabitant could lead to such verbal abuse, but a systematic analysis of verbal violence addressed by city dwellers to public authority shows that many ‘ ordinary’ citizens actually questioned local power for political purposes. It is also striking that rude language in public space was the ideal instrument to qu...
Historians have studied the regime change of 1813 in the Netherlands mainly from a national perspect...
Although the iconoclastic scare must have been enormous and the actual impact of the attacks of summ...
In his study on people's morals and the right to vengeance in the Low Countries, a highly urbanised ...
This article sketches the characteristics of what can be called 'lettered resistance' in the medieva...
Jelle Haemers & Dries Merlevede, Le commun se esmeut. The Politics of the “ Commons” in the Ghent Re...
This article investigates the rise of urban policing of itinerant poor in the Northern Low Countries...
This article investigates the rise of urban policing of itinerant poor in the Northern Low Countries...
© 2017 The Author(s). This case study on the Brabantine uprising of 1420–1 reveals common ground bet...
This article analyses the Joyous Entry of Maximilian of Austria into Antwerp on 13 January 1478 and ...
This article studies the social protest of the 1280s in the main cities of the county of Flanders. ...
Urban communities have developed institutions and original methods of regulation to control aggressi...
This article examines the political messages that are incorporated in stories about revolts in late ...
This article raises an issue of the physical violence on the basis of several texts from the sevente...
International audienceThis article provides an overview of criminal practices in the Swedish town of...
Like Liège, the city of Ghent owes its university to the educational policy of king William I during...
Historians have studied the regime change of 1813 in the Netherlands mainly from a national perspect...
Although the iconoclastic scare must have been enormous and the actual impact of the attacks of summ...
In his study on people's morals and the right to vengeance in the Low Countries, a highly urbanised ...
This article sketches the characteristics of what can be called 'lettered resistance' in the medieva...
Jelle Haemers & Dries Merlevede, Le commun se esmeut. The Politics of the “ Commons” in the Ghent Re...
This article investigates the rise of urban policing of itinerant poor in the Northern Low Countries...
This article investigates the rise of urban policing of itinerant poor in the Northern Low Countries...
© 2017 The Author(s). This case study on the Brabantine uprising of 1420–1 reveals common ground bet...
This article analyses the Joyous Entry of Maximilian of Austria into Antwerp on 13 January 1478 and ...
This article studies the social protest of the 1280s in the main cities of the county of Flanders. ...
Urban communities have developed institutions and original methods of regulation to control aggressi...
This article examines the political messages that are incorporated in stories about revolts in late ...
This article raises an issue of the physical violence on the basis of several texts from the sevente...
International audienceThis article provides an overview of criminal practices in the Swedish town of...
Like Liège, the city of Ghent owes its university to the educational policy of king William I during...
Historians have studied the regime change of 1813 in the Netherlands mainly from a national perspect...
Although the iconoclastic scare must have been enormous and the actual impact of the attacks of summ...
In his study on people's morals and the right to vengeance in the Low Countries, a highly urbanised ...