Résistance locale et émeutes dans les chef-villes brabançonnes aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles

Abstract

Collective actions in the Brabant capital cities should rather be studied in relation to the policy of centralization of the princes than to cyclical fluctuations and years of crisis. Even though they manifested themselves in a variety of forms and originated as a result of divergent causes, they often appeared to have the same motives, to wit, the struggle for the preservation of spheres of influence. Usually, it were the guild leaders, being part of the city administration, who directed the resistance.