Alarm! Alarm! Priors make meat! - Alessandro Barbero

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Book in Italian

2023 Laterza

They arrive completely unexpected. They last very little, sometimes only a few weeks, then they are repressed. But in that short time, things happen that remain forever engraved in the collective memory. These are popular uprisings. History, at least in the last millennium, is punctuated by critical moments in which a mass of people decide that they don't like the future as they see it, and try to change it. The Middle Ages are no exception: even then there was no shortage of insurrectional movements which in their initial development did not seem at all distinguishable from the most overwhelming modern revolutions. In particular, so many of them were concentrated in the second half of the fourteenth century as to constitute an anomaly. Alessandro Barbero recounts the most spectacular of these insurrections. Historians have long seen their failure as proof not only that the rioters had no chance of succeeding, but that they weren't even pursuing a conscious goal. Nothing could be further from the truth: the rioters knew what they were doing, they had precise demands and they consciously fought to realize them.

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Description

Book in Italian

2023 Laterza

They arrive completely unexpected. They last very little, sometimes only a few weeks, then they are repressed. But in that short time, things happen that remain forever engraved in the collective memory. These are popular uprisings. History, at least in the last millennium, is punctuated by critical moments in which a mass of people decide that they don't like the future as they see it, and try to change it. The Middle Ages are no exception: even then there was no shortage of insurrectional movements which in their initial development did not seem at all distinguishable from the most overwhelming modern revolutions. In particular, so many of them were concentrated in the second half of the fourteenth century as to constitute an anomaly. Alessandro Barbero recounts the most spectacular of these insurrections. Historians have long seen their failure as proof not only that the rioters had no chance of succeeding, but that they weren't even pursuing a conscious goal. Nothing could be further from the truth: the rioters knew what they were doing, they had precise demands and they consciously fought to realize them.

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