The Logic of Political Conflict in Medieval Cities
Italy and the Southern Low Countries, 1370-1440
Patrick Lantschner
Reviews and Awards
Winner of the 2016 Bronislaw Geremek Prize for an outstanding first book
"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." - Jelle Haemers, Urban History
"this is an excellent monograph and is very well written, providing a detailed overview of complex ideas and situations and in doing so adding an important civic dimension to political studies of state formation ... an impressive book bringing in a range of examples and offering an interesting mix of well-studied cases and less well-known ones ... Lantschner has managed to fit an impressive amount into a short and easy to read survey of six complex situations, and has used them to offer a new political account of the later Middle Ages." - Dr Laura Crombie, Reviews in History
"Lantschner offers his readers a careful, thorough, and insightful analysis ... [a] deeply compelling model of urban conflict, which offers historians a powerful set of tools for understanding political life in medieval cities." - David Foote, The Medieval Review
"Patrick Lantschner's The Logic of Political Conflict in Medieval Cities: Italy and the Southern Low Countries, 1370-1440 is an impressive study of how politics "worked" in the cities of the southern Low Countries and Italy during the late Middle Ages." - Martha Howell, American Historical Review
"remarkable detail based on deep archival research" - Tom Scott, English Historical Review
"impressive" - Speculum