TY - BOOK AU - Barker,Juliet TI - 1381: The Year of the Peasants’ Revolt SN - 9780674368149 AV - DA235 .B37 2014 U1 - 942.038 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - Peasant uprisings KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Tyler's Insurrection, 1381 KW - HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674735521 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674735521 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674735521/original ER -