Patrick Lantschner works and teaches on Europe and the Islamic world in the later Middle Ages. Prior to coming to UCL, he was a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and taught at Cambridge. He has published on medieval cities in Europe and the Islamic world, and is broadly interested in societies in which the state is but one of a number of players. He takes a keen interest in comparative and transnational history, and has worked with scholars from anthropology, law, and oriental studies.

In this brilliant book, Patrick Lantschner offers new insight into urban revolts in the later Middle Ages ... Lantschner's argument is convincing, not least because of the richness of his book ... We can therefore only hope that Lantschner's analysis will provoke other historians to study the 'earlier' political development of cities in particular and urban history in general from a similar comparative perspective.

• PART I: CONFLICT IN A POLYCENTRIC POLITICAL ORDER; PART II: URBAN SYSTEMS OF CONFLICT

Patrick Lantschner works and teaches on Europe and the Islamic world in the later Middle Ages. Prior to coming to UCL, he was a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and taught at Cambridge. He has published on medieval cities in Europe and the Islamic world, and is broadly interested in societies in which the state is but one of a number of players. He takes a keen interest in comparative and transnational history, and has worked with scholars from anthropology, law, and oriental studies.

In this brilliant book, Patrick Lantschner offers new insight into urban revolts in the later Middle Ages ... Lantschner's argument is convincing, not least because of the richness of his book ... We can therefore only hope that Lantschner's analysis will provoke other historians to study the 'earlier' political development of cities in particular and urban history in general from a similar comparative perspective.

• PART I: CONFLICT IN A POLYCENTRIC POLITICAL ORDER; PART II: URBAN SYSTEMS OF CONFLICT

Patrick Lantschner works and teaches on Europe and the Islamic world in the later Middle Ages. Prior to coming to UCL, he was a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and taught at Cambridge. He has published on medieval cities in Europe and the Islamic world, and is broadly interested in societies in which the state is but one of a number of players. He takes a keen interest in comparative and transnational history, and has worked with scholars from anthropology, law, and oriental studies.

In this brilliant book, Patrick Lantschner offers new insight into urban revolts in the later Middle Ages ... Lantschner's argument is convincing, not least because of the richness of his book ... We can therefore only hope that Lantschner's analysis will provoke other historians to study the 'earlier' political development of cities in particular and urban history in general from a similar comparative perspective.

• PART I: CONFLICT IN A POLYCENTRIC POLITICAL ORDER; PART II: URBAN SYSTEMS OF CONFLICT