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- aggregation abstract "Can the expression "tax revolt" be used in the Middle-Ages and if it can, is that concept historiographically relevant? This phrase is often used to characterize the collective actions taking place in the wake of outbursts of popular discontent caused by a particular tax decision or directed at generally excessive tax levels. Through the specific study of the case of the 1467 revolt in Saint-Omer, we will attempt to demonstrate that tax pressure has never been the only reason for a revolt outbreak. The direct cause of some risings of that type could be related to taxes, but the structural causes concerned forms of social and political inequalities. Taxation was more a symptom of what corresponded still in the late Middle-Ages to the typical communal demands voiced by the rebels : privileges, maintenance of waterways and infrastructure, common grazing lands and participation in the management of the city.".