England, Arise - The People, the King and the Great Revolt of 1381

The dramatic and shocking events of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 are to be the backdrop to Juliet Barker's latest book: a snapshot of what everyday life was like for ordinary people living in the middle ages. The same highly successful techniques she deployed in Agincourt and Conquest will this time be brought to bear on civilian society, from the humblest serf forced to provide slave-labour for his master in the fields to the prosperous country goodwife brewing, cooking and spinning her distaff and the ambitious burgess expanding his business and his mental horizons in the town. The book will explore how and why such a diverse and 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 which, had it been implemented, would have fundamentally transformed English society and anticipated the French Revolution by four hundred years. The book will not only provide an important reassessment of the revolt itself but will also be an illuminating and original study of English medieval life at the time.

Report

Juliet Barker's thorough, clear-eyed and intelligent new volume adds much to the field: packed with vivid pen portraits of the rebels and the men they hunted . . . a vivid and exciting portrait of a country in angry upheaval. It is as timely subject matter as ever Dan Jones Sunday Times

Product details

• Authors: Juliet Barker
• Publisher: Little Brown
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.2014
• EAN: 9781408703366
• ISBN: 978-1-4087-0336-6
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 231 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; History, European History, HISTORY / General, CE period up to c 1500, British & Irish history, c 1000 CE to c 1500, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval