1381 : The Year of the Peasants' Revolt / Juliet Barker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barker, Juliet, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tyler's Insurrection, 1381.

Peasant uprisings--Great Britain--History--To 1500.

Peasant uprisings.

Great Britain--History--Richard II, 1377-1399.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Juliet Barker provides an account of the first great popular uprising in England and a fascinating study of medieval life in English towns and countryside. She tells how and why an unlikely group of ordinary men and women from every corner of England united in armed rebellion against church and state to demand a radical political agenda.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

A Note to the Text

1. The end of an era

2. The state of the nation

3. Landlords and tenants

4. Urban society

5. Wars and taxes

6. Resistance

7. Essex and Kent arise

8. To London

9. Mile End

10. Smithfield

11. St Albans and Bury St Edmunds

12. Ely, Huntingdon and Cambridge

13. Norfolk

14. North and south

15. Suppression

16. The aftermath

17. The legacy

Appendix 1 Wat Tyler

Appendix 2 Jack Straw

Appendix 3 John Balle

Appendix 4 John Balle’s letters

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Picture Credits

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

0-674-73552-8

OCLC:

894987113