Using several cities in the late medieval Southern Low Countries as a case-study, this article deals with the relation between urban space and different forms of political protest. Urban commoners were aware of the powerful symbolism of certain places in the late medieval city and used that to their advantage during large-scale revolts. Yet the use of space was not limited to the dramatic occupations during these revolts. This article uncovers a wide range of strategies and tactics that common people used to act within given spaces to make their resistance possible. A spatial analysis of several instances of large- and smaller-scale resistance shows that space was intrinsically connected with how and when any form of resistance developed in late medieval cities. As such, the article aims to contribute to the literature on the importance of space in late medieval urban politics, in which attention to smaller-scale practices has been very limited.

本文以中世纪晚期南部低地国家的几个城市为案例研究，探讨城市空间与不同形式的政治抗议之间的关系。城市平民意识到中世纪晚期城市某些地方的强大象征意义，并在大规模起义中利用这一点。然而，空间的使用并不仅限于这些起义期间的戏剧性职业。本文揭示了普通人过去常常在特定空间内采取行动以使他们的抵抗成为可能的各种策略和战术。对大小规模抵抗的几个实例的空间分析表明，空间与中世纪晚期城市中任何形式的抵抗发展的方式和时间有着内在的联系。像这样，