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.
This article focuses on the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 as a means of examining some of the late medieval assumptions about the nature of royal mercy. Rather than adding to the weight of scholarship on ...the causes and characteristics of the Revolt, this article discusses the views on mercy (‘grace for the rebels’)
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The parliament rolls of medieval England hereafter
PROME, ed. C. Given-Wilson et al. (CD-ROM. Scholarly Digital Editions, Leicester, 2005), ‘Richard II: parliament of 1381, text and translation’, item 30. I would like to thank the audience of the Oxford Medieval History Seminar for their advice on an early version of this paper, and Mark Ormrod for his helpful comments on this essay in draft form.
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that were reportedly expressed by all parties during the course of the rebellion. The first section analyses the chronicles and their references to discussion of pardon and mercy during the revolt itself. The second section examines the role of the royal pardon in the subsequent judicial proceedings in the Home Counties — who were the first recipients of pardon, and how were they able to secure royal grace? The final section then discusses the formulation of the pardon in the autumn parliament, and the debate surrounding the course of government policy in the wake of revolt on an unprecedented scale. This article seeks to demonstrate that the Crown and commons shared a common language of pardon, and understood that by framing their discussion in terms of royal grace, they were alluding to a particular kind of idealised relationship between the king and his subjects.
Bond Men Made Free Hilton, Rodney
2004, 2003, 2003-05-08, 2004-03-01, 20030101
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Rodney Hilton's account of the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 remains the classic authoritative text on the 'English Rising'. Hilton views the revolt in the context of a general European pattern of class ...conflict. He demonstrates that the peasant movements that disturbed the Middle Ages were not mere unrelated outbreaks of violence but had their roots in common economic and political conditions and in a recurring conflict of interest between peasants and landowners. Now with a new introduction by Christopher Dyer, this survey remains the leading source for students of medieval English peasantry.
One of the key outcomes of education is hoped to be the production of critical thinkers. What forces and choices shape the identity of the critical intellectual? As a way of approaching this question ...I would like to begin by recalling the work of one of South Africa's celebrated critical intellectuals; Govan Mbeki's study, South Africa: The Peasants' Revolt (1964). Mbeki's strong identification with the Transkeian peasants and his outrage at the imposition of tribalism on South Africa is submerged into a clinical critique of the socio-economic realities of the Transkei, the show-piece of the Bantustan scheme. In his dissection of the fraud of separate development, Mbeki analyses apartheid ethnicity as retribalisation, and cultural identity as the means of 'divide and rule'. This attempt to seduce Africans with the re-emergence of pre-colonial identities is, he argued, a gross distortion of reality.
One of the key outcomes of education is hoped to be the production of critical thinkers. What forces and choices shape the identity of the critical intellectual? As a way of approaching this question ...I would like to begin by recalling the work of one of South Africa's celebrated critical intellectuals; Govan Mbeki's study, South Africa: The Peasants' Revolt (1964). Mbeki's strong identification with the Transkeian peasants and his outrage at the imposition of tribalism on South Africa is submerged into a clinical critique of the socio-economic realities of the Transkei, the show-piece of the Bantustan scheme. In his dissection of the fraud of separate development, Mbeki analyses apartheid ethnicity as retribalisation, and cultural identity as the means of 'divide and rule'. This attempt to seduce Africans with the re-emergence of pre-colonial identities is, he argued, a gross distortion of reality.
This thesis provides an analysis of material relating to the peasants" revolt of 1381 found in the records of royal judicial agencies. A number of previously unknown sources of information about the ...rising are described. Commission records help to establish the main features of the pattern of development and geographical distribution of the disturbances in Kent, Essex and East Anglia. King's bench records are extremely heterogeneous in character, but Ar, mainly of interest for the information they provide about the unrest in London and other towns. The private litigation against the rebels permits extremely detailed investigation of the background of the insurgents and also allows rebel bands to be identified. Escheators' accounts and exclusions from the general pardon have been overrated as sources, but, together with gaol delivery records, provide some details of incidents in counties for which information about the rising is otherwise patchy. Judicial records emphasise the importance of local tensions and private quarrels in the rising. They suggest that the rapid spread of the troubles across a large part of the country was mainly due to the pursuit of local and personal grievances of this sort. The varied background of the participants in the rising probably reflects the strong local and personal elements in the disturbances. The judicial records also indicate that the events in London did not form the focal point of the rebellion in the way suggested in the chronicles. The demands presented at Mile End and Smithfield were not necessarily representative of the views of the bulk of insurgents. It appears that many of the rebels were more interested in short term personal gain than thoroughgoing reform of the social and political order.
Lucifer and his angels DeVries, Kelly
Medieval Warfare,
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Magazine Article
Why would peasants revolt? The answer once given by historians influenced by Marxist economic and historical thought was that they were oppressed by those who, in a pre-industrial historical context, ...essentially “owned” them. This ownership gave these “lords” the right to determine an almost daily regimen of hard agricultural work for their peasants, whose only respite came from the times they were worshiping in their churches or involved in Church “holy days” and other activities. The peasants were simply revolting against this oppressive enforced labor.
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