How common were revolts in medieval European feudal societies?

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>>1819921

Edwardian Era was the peak of humanity tßh

pretty much every time there was food shortages, but rarely any of them was successful due to their military being solely from the higher classes (and a few mercenaries)

>>1819975
Love women's fashion of the time

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>>1819921
not middle ages but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Peasants%27_War

The feudal system depended on displays of strength and revolts were often escalated political squabbles between factions of the aristocracy, not against the system itself. Large scale wars could be astoundingly brutal, however regions often saw decades of peace so it wasn't very frequent.

Peasant rebellions were not really a thing until the 14th century. Many pin this on the black death causing labor shortages and peasants resisting efforts to stop them charging high prices, but gentry, burghers and rogue mercenaries often played a strong role in these revolts so my theory is that technological and economic changes leading up to the renaissance enabled them to taking advantage of disruptions to society in a way they could not before.

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>>1819921
>when the workers sieze the means of production
>then drink all the produce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO2ms-1k91k

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>>1819921
Oh and to answer your question, for example the region of Slovenia and Croatia, because of the various economic (plague, drought) and political (turkish incursions, increased taxes) experience 5 major revolts and 140 minor ones in the period of the 15-18th century.

Before that, the major rebellions were mainly against the christianisation efforts and the attempts by the Bavarians and Franks to establish their dominion in the 8.-10th centuries.
The actual middle ages were realtively peaceful.
Mind you, I'm only talking about slovenia here.

>>1820178
economic and political factors, experienced*

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>>1820178
And to get a feel for the scale, the All slovene revolt of 1515, which was the second biggest one (surpassed only by the joint slovene-croatian one), involved 80,000 people or about 15-20% of the general population.

Often, these revolts organised themselves as some form of proto-syndicalism, involving group leadership and even imposing election of clergy.