Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of contributors
  • Introduction. Oral cultures and traditions of social conflict: an introduction to sources and approaches
  • 1 Political songs and memories of rebellion in the later medieval Low Countries
  • 2 Remembering the Peasantsâ#x80;#x99; War in the Vosges: the Song of Rosemont
  • 3 Competing memories of a Swiss revolt: the prism of the William Tell legend
  • 4 Songs as echoes of rebellion in early modern Brittany
  • 5 Turning sacrilege into victory: Catholic memories of Calvinist iconoclasm in the Low Countries, 1566â#x80;#x93;17006 Orality and popular revolts in Louis XIVâ#x80;#x99;s France: what makes the Camisards special?
  • 7 Popular memory and early modern revolts in Russia: from Razin to Pugachev
  • 8 An Chaoimhniadh Chomhachtaigh agus Séamus an Chaca (worthy knight/worthless shite): James II and his war in Irish vernacular literature and folk memory
  • 9 Melody as a bearer of radical ideology: English enclosures, The Coney Warren and mobile clamour
  • 10 Sing out!: political and commemorative uses of Counter-Revolutionary singing in Brittany11 The Floating Parliament: ballads of the British naval mutinies of 1797
  • 12 Lost voices?: memories of early modern peasant revolts in post-emancipation Estonia
  • 13 The enigma of Roddy McCorley Goes to Die: forgetting and remembering a local rebel hero in Ulster
  • Conclusion: popular revolts and oral traditions
  • Select bibliography
  • Index of songs