Revolution in Carcassonne - Elaine Graham-Leigh Journal author of How a Century

author of How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women

An essential and engaging read

Bringing Marxist methodology and strategy to a careful analysis of existing emancipatory movements

' (Nicholas Roe

Revolution in Carcassonne - Elaine Graham-Leigh Journal author of How a CenturyIn August 1303, the people of the southern French town of Carcassonne rose up in revolt. Their rebellion against King and Inquisition saw the prison stormed, many of the town elite driven out and their houses sacked, and the inquisitors humiliated. For eighteen months, Carcassonne was a town where the French royal writ did not run. Reconstructed from the contemporary accounts, the revolt emerges as an important incident in medieval class struggle. It