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The fourteenth-century legal system made accommodations for practices of vigilantism and retribution. Debts were often recovered using force, disputes resolved by duels, and judges were only involved when all other attempts at resolution had failed. The Folvilles were emboldened by finding themselves 'heroes of the revolution' (at least locally ...
An abridged version of the book was read by Robert Glenister on BBC Radio 4 as Book of the Week between Monday 10 and Friday 14 January 2005. [5]The Last Duel, a drama documentary based on the book and including comments by Jager, was broadcast by BBC Four as part of a medieval-themed season on 24 April 2008.
Ferrand Martinez (fl. 14th century) was a Spanish cleric and archdeacon of Écija, Andalusia and most noted for being the agitator whom historians cite as the prime mover behind the Massacres of 1391, with violence beginning in the Andalusian capital of Seville. [13] Little is known of Martínez's early life.
James Coterel, in his youth, has been described as a 14th-century juvenile delinquent. [14] He was the eldest—and, says the medievalist Barbara Hanawalt , the dominant personality—among the brothers, [ 15 ] ("young men of prys", as they were later called) [ 16 ] and was the acknowledged leader of the gang, which was later recorded as the ...
There were some popular uprisings in Europe before the 14th century, but these were local in scope, for example uprisings at a manor house against an unpleasant overlord. This changed in the 14th and 15th centuries when new downward pressures on the poor [clarification needed] resulted in mass movements and popular uprisings across Europe. To ...
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Nevertheless, judicial duels continued to be popular throughout the 14th and 15th centuries. Depiction of a judicial duel between a man and a woman by Hans Talhoffer (Ms.Thott.290.2º, Folio 80r, 1459) Trial by combat plays a significant role in the German schools of fencing in the 15th century.