Communes and Conflict: Urban Rebellion in Late Medieval Flanders

About Jan DumolynJelle Haemers

Jan Dumolyn is a professor of history at Ghent University. He has published extensively on late medieval labour history urban rebellion politics material culture and law as well as more widely on Marxist theory and contemporary class struggle. This includes books on the Bruges uprising of 14361438 on Burgundian local governance court societies and state-formation and on struggles from the bottom-up against globalizing neoliberalism.. Jelle Haemers is a professor of medieval history at KU Leuven. He has written three books on urban revolts in the county of Flanders. In recent years his research interests have widened to encompass the social history of the late medieval town notably in the Low Countries (11001600). He has also published on the use of social theory in history the late medieval nobility and women's history.