"The Calamity of Violence: Reading the Paris Massacres" Topic
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Tango01 | 08 Dec 2018 12:07 p.m. PST |
…. of 1418. "The biggest problem facing the historian of medieval political culture is how to access the consciousness and beliefs of those outside the nobility and clergy. Even when members of the lower orders are given voice in sources, such as judicial records, or when their actions are described at length in chronicle accounts of revolt or town ceremonies, this version of their experience is mediated not only by the fact that it passes through a text, but further by the fact that this text was written by someone from a literate minority, generally from a position of power and often hostile to the concept of an active and politically engaged populace. Many scholars are content to allow elite expressions of a political ideal to stand in for the whole of medieval society and, thereby, incorrectly characterize the commons as essentially apolitical or as eager participants in the maintenance of the authoritarian ideology that undergirded most medieval political texts…." Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Mad Guru | 28 Jan 2019 8:37 p.m. PST |
Interesting article. Made me think for the first time that you could make a great convention game out of the 1418 Paris Riots, with an entire table set up like Medieval Paris, and High Value Personages (including the young Dauphin Charles) and vital locations being fought over by Armagnac, Burgundian, guilds, lesser nobles, and various Parisian mob factions. Could be lots of fun. |
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