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Note publique d'information : "Public Opinion and Political Contest" presents an important historiographical intervention
regarding the emergence of larger political publics during the fifteenth century.
The study analyses political interaction and public opinion in medieval Europe's largest
city through the lens of the only continuous narrative source compiled in Paris during
the early fifteenth century, the well-known 'Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris'. Examining
one of the most turbulent periods in Paris' history, which witnessed civil conflict
and English occupation, the monograph contributes substantially to understandings
of late medieval popular opinion conceptually and empirically, revealing Parisian
groups bound by shared idioms and assumptions engaging with supralocal movements.
Through an assessment of contemporary reactions to official communication, protest
in public space, rumour and civic ceremony, the book presents a timely mirror to themes
in flux today, addressing historiographical conclusions that have relegated premodern
societies from considerations of the public sphere. As a result, this nuanced assessment
of the 'Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris' reveals how access to informational media
and forums for discussion bound Parisians and framed a wider commentary upon political
issues beyond the highest echelons of medieval society
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