1. Definition
As used by the sources as well as by historians, the term revolt covers a broad, loosely defined spectrum of resistance to various forms and types of exercise of power. The boundaries between revolt and protest, unrest (Civil unrest), food riots, famine and food riots, uprisings, or even revolution and war (Peasants’ War) were fluid.
In the early modern period, we find side by side a variety of terms for insubordinate behavior of subjects (Latin…