The dramatic and shocking events of the Peasants' Revolt in 1381 serve as the backdrop for Juliet Barker's latest book: a portrait of the everyday life of ordinary people during the Middle Ages. The same successful techniques she used in Agincourt and Conquest will be applied this time to political society, from the humble farmer forced to offer slave labor for his master in the fields, to the progressive housewife who kneads, cooks, and spins her loom, as well as the ambitious townsman who expands his business and spiritual horizons in the city. The book explores how and why this diverse and unlikely group of ordinary men and women from every corner of England united in armed rebellion against the church and state to demand a radical political agenda that, if implemented, would have fundamentally transformed English society and predated the French Revolution by four hundred years. The book will offer a significant reassessment of the revolt itself, as well as an illuminating and original study of English medieval life at the time.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Juliet Barker
- Publisher
- Little Brown Book Group
- Skroutz Book Awards 2025
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- Type
- General History
- Theme
- World History
- Time Period
- Middle Ages
- Language
- English
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 528
- Release Date
- -
- Publication Date
- 2015
- Dimensions
- 13x20 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780349123820
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