Bibliographic Essay

In addition to the works cited in the footnotes to this chapter, general studies of early modern European collective violence include Yves-Marie Berce, Revolt and Revolution in Early Modern Europe: An Essay on the History of Political Violence (New York: St Martin's Press, 1987); Wayne P.

General studies of English collective violence include Anthony Fletcher and Diarmaid MacCulloch, Tudor Rebellions, 5th edn (London: Pearson Longman, 2008); John Stevenson, Popular Disturbances in England, 1700-1832, 2nd edn (London: Longman Publishing, 1992); Charles Tilly, Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995); and Andy Wood, Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England (New York: Palgrave, 2002). On enclosure riots see Roger Manning, Village Revolts: Social Protest and Popular Disturbances in England, 1509-1640 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998); Buchanan Sharp, In Contempt of All Authority: Rural Artisans and Riots in the West of England, 1586-1660 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980); and Andy Wood, The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Study of the wave of peasant rebellions that engulfed France began with the work of the Soviet scholar Boris F. Porshnev, who, in Les soulevements populaires en France de 1623 a 1648 (Paris: SEVPEN, 1963), interpreted these revolts in terms of class conflict and elicited a strongly anti-Marxist response from Roland Mousnier, Peasant Uprisings in Seventeenth­Century France, Russia, and China, trans. Brian Pearce (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), and his students, including Yves-Marie Berce, Histoire des Croquants: etude des soulevements populaires au XVIIe siecle dans le sud-ouest de la France, 2 vols. (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1974); Madeleine Foisil, La revolte des nu-pieds et les revoltes normandes de 1639 (Presses Universitaires de France, 1970); and Rene Pillorget, Les mouvements insurrectionels de Provence entre 1596 et 1715 (Paris: Editions A. Pedone, 1975). A recent addition to these regional studies is Gauthier Aubert, Les revoltes du papier timbre, 1675: essai d'histoire evenementielle (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014). Urban disturbances are the subject of an important study by William Beik, Urban Protest in Seventeenth-Century France: The Culture of Retribution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). For religious violence see Denis Crouzet, Les guerriers de Dieu: la violence au temps des troubles de religion, vers 1525-vers 1610, 2 vols. (Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 1990), and W. Gregory Hanlon, Let God Arise: The War and Rebellion of the Camisards (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

The Peasants' War of 1525 dominates the history of Germany in our period, and the work of Peter Blickle remains key in its study, but also see his more general study of German unrest, Obedient Germans? A Rebuttal: A New View of German History, trans. Thomas A. Brady Jr (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997). On the Fettmilch uprising in Frankfurt, see Christopher R. Friedrichs, ‘Politics or Pogrom? The Fettmilch Uprising in German and Jewish History', Central European History 19.2 (1986), 186-227.

On the revolts in the Spanish monarchy, the classic work on Naples is that of Rosario Villari, The Revolt of Naples, trans. James Newell, 5th edn (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993), but we also have Alain Hugon, Naples insurgee, 1647-1648: de l'evenement a la memoire (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011). On the Iberian peninsula, see Stephen Haliczer, The Comuneros of Castile: The Forging of a Revolution, 1475-1521 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981) and J. H. Elliott, The Revolt of the Catalans: A Study in the Decline of Spain (1598-1640) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963).