Popular Protest

Seminar Questions

In what circumstances did popular protest become violent?
Was violence more of an aid or a hindrance in securing protestors' demands?

Required Reading

All students should analyse

The Twenty-Four Articles to the King by the Pilgrimage of Grace (1536)Link opens in a new window

AND

Badge of the Five Wounds of ChristLink opens in a new window (embroidered textile) by English School, (16th century). This was carried by Thomas Constable of Everingham who took part in the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536. By courtesy of His Grace The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle.

All students should also read

Ruff, Julius R., 'Riots, Rebellions and Revolutions in Europe', in Robert J. Antony, Stuart Carroll, and Caroline Dodds Pennock, eds, The Cambridge World History of Violence: 1500-1800 CELink opens in a new window (Cambridge, 2020), pp. 472-89.

E-Resources

Further Reading

Barkey, Karen, Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State CentralizationLink opens in a new window (Ithaca, NY, 1994)

Beik, William, 'The Violence of the French Crowd from Charivari to RevolutionLink opens in a new window', Past and Present 197 (2007), 75-110.

Beik, William, Urban Protest in Seventeenth-Century France: The Culture of RetributionLink opens in a new window (Cambridge, 1997)

Bercé, Yves-Marie, History of Peasant Revolts: The Social Origins of Rebellion in Early Modern FranceLink opens in a new window, trans. Amanda Whitmore (Cambridge, 1990)

Bercé, Yves-Marie, Revolt and Revolution in Early Modern Europe, trans. Joseph Bergin (Manchester, 1987)

Carroll, Linda L., 'Carnival Rites as Vehicles of Protest in Renaissance VeniceLink opens in a new window', The Sixteenth Century Journal 16/4 (1985), 487-502

Clifton, Robin, The Last Popular Rebellion: The Western Rising of 1685Link opens in a new window (Hounslow, 1984)

Connolly, S. J., Contested Island: Ireland 1460-1630 (Oxford, 2007)

Davies, C.S.L. ‘Popular Disorder’, in Peter Clark, ed., The European Crisis of the 1590sLink opens in a new window (London, 1985), pp.244-260.

Dunning, Chester S. L., Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov DynastyLink opens in a new window (University Park, PA, 2001) [For the Bolotnikov Rebellion]

Fletcher, Anthony, and Diarmaid MacCulloch, Tudor RebellionsLink opens in a new window, 5th ed. (Harlow, 2004)

Fletcher, Anthony, and Stevenson, John, ‘Introduction’, in Anthony Fletcher and John Stevenson, eds, Order and Disorder in Early Modern EnglandLink opens in a new window (Cambridge, 1985), pp.1-40.

Griesse, Malte, ed., From Mutual Observation to Propaganda War: Premodern Revolts in Their Transnational Representations (Bielefeld, 2014)

Haliczer, Stephen, The Comuneros of Castile: The Forging of a Revolution, 1475-1521Link opens in a new window (Madison, WI, 1981)

Hindle, Steve, 'Crime and Popular ProtestLink opens in a new window' in Barry Coward, ed., Blackwell Companions to British History: A Companion to Stuart Britain (Oxford, 2003), pp.130-47.

Hindle, Steve. 'Imagining Insurrection in Seventeenth-Century England: Representations of the Midland Rising of 1607Link opens in a new window', History Workshop Journal 58 (2008), 21-61

Kesselring, K. J., The Northern Rebellion of 1569: Faith, Politics, and Protest in Elizabethan EnglandLink opens in a new window (Basingstoke, 2007)

Koskinen, Ulla, Aggressive and Violent Peasant Elites in the Nordic Countries, c. 1500-1700 (Basingstoke, 2017)

Lindley, Keith, ‘Riot Prevention and Control in Early Stuart LondonLink opens in a new window’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th ser. 33 (1983), 109-126.

Manning, Roger B., Village Revolts: Social Protest and Popular Disturbances in England 1509-1640Link opens in a new window (Oxford, 1988)

Murdock, Graeme, Penny Roberts and Andrew Spicer, 'Ritual and ViolenceLink opens in a new window', Past & Present 214/7 (2012)

Nussdorfer, Laurie, 'The Vacant See: Ritual and Protest in Early Modern RomeLink opens in a new window', The Sixteenth Century Journal 18/2 (1987), 173-189

Perrie, Maureen, 'Recent Western Historiography of the Time of Troubles in RussiaLink opens in a new window', Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, Istoriya 63 (2018), 244-261

Rapple, Rory, 'Writing about Violence in the Tudor KingdomsLink opens in a new window', The Historical Journal 54/3 (2011), 829-54.

Roberts, Penny, 'Urban Conflict and Royal Authority: Popular Revolts in Sixteenth-Century TroyesLink opens in a new window', Urban History 34 (2007), 189-207

Sánchez León, Pablo, Absolutismo y comunidad: los orígenes sociales de la guerra de los comuneros de CastillaLink opens in a new window (Madrid, 1998)

Schindler, Norbert, Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern GermanyLink opens in a new window, trans. Pamela E. Selwyn (Cambridge, 2002)

Scott, Tom, and Bob Scribner, eds and trans, The German Peasants' War: A History in DocumentsLink opens in a new window (Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1991)

Sharp, Buchanan, ‘Popular Protest in Seventeenth-Century England’, in Barry Reay, ed., Popular Culture in Seventeenth-Century England Link opens in a new window(London, 1985), pp.271-308.

Thompson, E. P., 'The Moral Economy of the Crowd in the Eighteenth CenturyLink opens in a new window', Past and Present 50 (1971), 76-136.

Tyacke, Nicholas, ed., The English Revolution c.1590-1720: Politics, Religion and CommunitiesLink opens in a new window (Manchester, 2007)

Walter, John, Crowds and Popular Politics in Early Modern EnglandLink opens in a new window (Manchester, 2006)

Walter, John, ‘Faces in the Crowd: Gender, Youth and Age in Early Modern Protest’, in Helen Berry and Elizabeth Foyster, eds, The Family in Early Modern England Link opens in a new window(Cambridge, 2007), pp. 96-125.

Walter, John, 'Politicising the popular? The "tradition of riot" and popular political culture in the English Revolution,' in Nicholas Tyacke, ed., The English Revolution c.1590-1720: politics, religion and communities Link opens in a new window(Manchester, 2007), pp. 95-110

Walter, John, Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution: The Colchester PlunderersLink opens in a new window (Cambridge, 1999)

Wood, Andy, The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern EnglandLink opens in a new window (Cambridge, 2007)

Wood, Andy, Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern EnglandLink opens in a new window (Houndmills, 2002)