Beginning as a series of scattered rural riots in late 1323, peasant
insurrection escalated into a full-scale rebellion that dominated public
affairs in Flanders for nearly five years. Following their own leaders,
peasants defied the authority of the count of Flanders by driving his
officials and their aristocratic allies from the countryside. In A
Plague of Insurrection, William H. TeBrake has written the first
full-length account of the rebellion.