1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (page edges faintly toned - otherwise Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover). Pp. vi + 220, illus with table (previous owner's neat pencil inscription on front endpaper).

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Title

THE ENGLISH RISING OF 1381 (Past and Present Publications)

Publisher

Cambridge University Press, 1985. 0521267439

Publication Date

1985

Language

English

ISBN 10

0521267439

ISBN 13

9780521267434

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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Medieval History

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Synopsis

This book contains eight articles, six of which are based on papers contributed to a commemoration conference organised by the Past and Present Society in 1981. Two further articles and an introduction are contributed by other experts. They explore the various dimensions of the rising of 1381: the discontent of peasants and townspeople who became politicised in response to government tax demands; reasons for the attitudes of the subordinated classes to the law, which they perceived as being the instrument of their oppressors; the response of the ruling class and its government to one of the most coherent challenges to feudal order in the Middle Ages. In addition, two contributions on social movements in fourteenth-century France and Italy show that the rising can be regarded as a symptom of the general crisis of European feudal society in the later Middle Ages.

Book Description

The rising of 1381 was 'one of the most portentous events in the whole of our history', to quote the famous medievalist William Stubbs. It has been the subject of many works, specialized and popular, especially since the 600th anniversary in 1981. This present volume eschews general narrative history.

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