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- The Jacquerie (French: [ʒakʁi]) was a popular revolt by peasants that took place in northern France in the early summer of 1358 during the Hundred Years' War. The revolt was centred in the valley of the Oise north of Paris and was suppressed after over two months of violence.
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The Jacquerie (French:) was a popular revolt by peasants that took place in northern France in the early summer of 1358 during the Hundred Years' War. [1] The revolt was centred in the valley of the Oise north of Paris and was suppressed after over two months of violence. [2]
Jacquerie, insurrection of peasants against the nobility in northeastern France in 1358—so named from the nobles’ habit of referring contemptuously to any peasant as Jacques, or Jacques Bonhomme. The Jacquerie occurred at a critical moment of the Hundred Years’ War.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sep 21, 2023 · The revolt soon became known as the Jacquerie, after the nickname “Jacques Bonhomme” that was given to soldiers of nonnoble birth. It was put down by a ferocious noble counterinsurgency. Rampaging across the countryside, vengeful nobles razed entire villages and knowingly executed the innocent alongside the guilty.
Apr 28, 2021 · The story of the Jacquerie is about how individuals reacted to a specific set of circumstances, how events both planned and accidental altered their course, and what and how they chose to remember (or to forget) in its aftermath. Keywords: Peasant revolt, medieval France, Hundred Years War, rebellion, Valois dynasty, violence. Subject.
- Justine Firnhaber-Baker
Jun 1, 2011 · The Jacquerie Revolt of 1358 rewrites the narrative of this tumultuous period and gives special attention to how violence and social relationships were harnessed to mobilize popular rebellion.
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The Jacquerie of 1358 resolves long-standing controversies about whether the revolt was just an irrational explosion of peasant hatred or simply an extension of the Parisian revolt.
Nov 23, 2022 · The great Jacquerie of 1358, a short-lived but intense peasant revolt in northern France, was a ‘social war’ resulting from various developments that mobilised different social groups. This is convincingly demonstrated by Justine Firnhaber-Baker in a very well researched monograph.
