Introduction: Medieval revolt in context / Justine Firnhaber-Baker -- Part One. Conceptualizing revolt : then and now -- Writing revolt in the early Roman Empire / Myles Lavan -- Takehan, cokerulle, and mutemaque : naming collective action in the later medieval Low Countries / Jan Dumolyn and Jelle Haemers -- The eponymous Jacquerie : making revolt mean some things / Justine Firnhaber-Baker -- "Great and horrible rumour" : shaping the English Revolt of 1381 / Andrew Prescott -- "United we stand?" : representing revolt in the historiography of Brabant and Holland (14th-15th c.) / Dirk Schoenaers -- An exemplary revolt of the central Middle Ages? : echoes of the first Lombard League across the Christian world around the year 1200 / Gianluca Raccagni -- Part Two. Socio-political contexts : identity, motivation, and mobilization -- Looking forward : peasant revolts in Europe, 600-1200 / Chris Wickham -- Invoking and constructing legitimacy : rebels in the late medieval European and Islamic worlds / Patrick Lantschner -- Rebellion and the law in fifteenth-century English towns / Eliza Hartrich -- Women in revolt in medieval and early modern Europe / Samuel Cohn, Jr. -- Popular movements and elite leadership : exploring a late medieval conundrum in cities of the Low Countries and Germany / Justine Smithuis -- Revolts and wars, corporations and leagues : remembering and communicating urban uprisings in the medieval empire / Gisela Naegle -- Part Three. Communication : language, performance, and violence -- A dossier of peasant and seigneurial violence / Paul Freedman -- Violence as a political language : the uses and misuses of violence in late medieval French and English popular rebellions / Vincent Challet -- Developing strategies of protest in late medieval Sicily / Fabrizio Titone -- Cultures of surveillance in late medieval English towns : the monitoring of speech and the fear of revolt / Christian Liddy -- Interpreting large-scale revolts : some evidence from the war of the communities of Castile / Hipólito Rafael Oliva Herrer -- Prophetic rebellions : radical urban theopolitics in the era of the Reformations / Phillip Haberkern -- Conclusion / John Watts