Firnhaber-Baker Justine - The Jacquerie of 1358: A French Peasants Revolt

This book was researched and written with the support of a British Arts and Humanities Research Council Early Career Fellowship (grant reference AH/K006843/1) and a Research Grant from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, for which I am profoundly grateful. I also thank the School of History at St Andrews for two terms of institutional leave.

Colleagues, students, and friends have helped shape my thinking and provided valuable feedback. I would particularly like to thank Frances Andrews, John Arnold, Elizabeth A.R. Brown, Warren Brown, Frederik Buylaert, Vincent Challet, Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., Jan Dumolyn, Sylvia Federico, Paul Freedman, Chris Given-Wilson, Erika Graham-Goering, Jelle Haemers, Rafael Oliva Herrer, Helen Lacey, Patrick Lantschner, James Palmer, Andrew Prescott, Teofilo Ruiz, Graeme Small, Alice Taylor, Craig Taylor, John Watts, and Chris Wickham. All Souls College and its Fellows offered a welcome refuge and witty conversation. My colleagues at St Andrews are especially to be thanked for creating an environment conducive to research and writing. My students, especially those in ME3425 The Age of Revolt, also have my gratitude for a decades worth of their insights and enthusiasm. The University of St Andrews is truly one of the best places in the world to be a mediaeval historian.

A number of librarians and archivists went out of their way for me. The staff at the Archives nationales, the Bibliothque nationale, and the Archives dpartementales of the Aisne, the Marne, and the Oise were all very helpful. My particular thanks to Jean-Christophe Dumain at the AD Aisne, to Christle Potvin at the AD Seine-Maritime, and to Michel Ollion at the Archives nationales for providing particular documents. The staff of the Library of the University of St Andrews were indispensable and very efficient, and those at the Bodeleian also came through in a pinch or two. I appreciate it.

My greatest debts of gratitude are owed to my family, including those both near and far. Thank you especially to Jan and Trevor Palmer and to Caroline and David Blackler for taking such good care of my children and my cats. Above all, thank you to James, Adryan, Sophie, and Hayden for your love and support, and for understanding when I disappear into the archives. Coming home is always the best part.