Peasants' Revolt
Peasants' Revolt (1381) A social uprising in England. Widespread unrest caused by repressive legislation, such as the Statute of Labourers (1351) was brought to a head by the imposition of the
POLL TAX of 1380. The revolt drew support from artisans,
VILLEINS, and the destitute. Men from Kent and Essex, led by Wat
TYLER and John
BALL, entered London, massacring some merchants and razing the palace of the Duke of Lancaster. The young king Richard II promised the men the abolition of serfdom, cheap land, and free trade. The rebels then occupied the Tower of London and beheaded the Archbishop and the king's Treasurer. The king persuaded the rebels to disperse, promising them further reforms. Tyler was murdered by the enraged Mayor of London, and the militant bishop of Norwich crushed the rebels in East Anglia. The government reestablished control and reneged on the monarch's promise. The revolt succeeded only as a protest against the taxation of the poor and the further levying of the Poll Tax.
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The peasants' revolt: in 1381 England witnessed a 'summer of blood' as the lower orders, emboldened by the labour shortages that followed the Black Death, flexed their muscle. Dan Jones tells the story of one of medieval England's most dramatic yet curiously neglected events.(THE PEASANTS' REVOLT)
Magazine article from: History Today; 6/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Peasants' Revolt terrified its victims and...they know of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, my guess is that...All That, 'the Pheasants' Revolts ... were thus clearly Romantic...the story of the Peasants' Revolt. It is a complicated one...
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Mau Mau and Kenya: An Analysis of a Peasant Revolt
Magazine article from: Journal of Third World Studies; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Analysis of a Peasant Revolt. Bloomington, IN...1950s and medieval peasant revolts and the jacqueries...between the Kenyan revolt and say nineteenth...century Russia whose peasants also had the slogan...fourteenth-century French peasants directed their wrath...definition of ...
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Climate Camp set up in the footsteps of the Peasants' Revolt
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/27/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...space that was key in the peasants' revolt. The 1,000-plus green...fields where Wat Tyler's peasant army assembled for its assault...history of protest --The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 began as...By 12 June 60,000 Kentish peasants had arrived at Blackheath...
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Profile: Jack Straw, who led a peasants revolt in 1381 and was hanged
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 2/1/2002; ; 377 words
; ...Jack Straw, who led a peasants revolt in 1381 and was hanged...Straw played a part in a peasants revolt back in 1381. And what were the peasants revolting about? ROBERT...not a great time to be a peasant, if there is such a thing...
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A revolutionary Bible? Thomas Muntzer and Gerrard Winstanley: Roland Boer writes on the Peasants' Revolt and the True Levellers.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Arena Magazine; 2/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...examples: Thomas Muntzer and the Peasants' Revolt in 16th-century Germany and Gerrard...revolution. Thomas Muntzer and the Peasants' Revolt One of the most famous...on 15 May 1525. Eight thousand peasants had lined up with him, expecting...
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There's nothing like a peasants' revolt to liven up our stale politics
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/20/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...had their moment of glory. The peasants struck blows against the establishments...bottle and cannot be returned. The peasants' revolt has not only restored Mrs Dunwoody...recognising the message from the restive peasants on the back benches - not least...
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Labour rocked by peasants' revolt; Ministers stunned as MPs hit back over sackings
Newspaper article from: Evening Times; 7/17/2001; 535 words
; ...legislation after the dramatic "peasants' revolt" by Labour MPs. Rebel backbenchers...control freakery". The scale of the revolt, coming so soon after Labour...lesson from this. It really is a peasants' revolt and a great day for Parliament...
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Time for a peasants' revolt.(nuclear non-proliferation)(Guest Opinion)(Brief Article)(Column)
Magazine article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; 11/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...states are docile and disorganized. It is time for a peasants' revolt. The 130 non-nuclear states should meet and issue...nonproliferation regime unravel before his eyes. If faced by a revolt of the peasants, the United States could hardly do nothing. Should...
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Medieval Law in Context: The Growth of Legal Consciousness from Magna Carta to the Peasants' Revolt.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 12/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Growth of Legal Consciousness from Magna Carta to the Peasants' Revolt. (Manchester Medieval Studies.) Manchester...of legal consciousness from Magna Car/a to the Peasants 'Revolt treats a critically important topic. Musson considers...
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PEASANTS REVOLT.(News)
Newspaper article from: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales); 4/1/2004; 327 words
; Byline: By PHILLIP NIFIELD South Wales Echo A modern-day peasants revolt against the way Cardiff council is running the city already has a dozen potential candidates, we can reveal today.ARE YOU UP...
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Peasants' Revolt
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Peasants' Revolt. This rebellion in 1381...another. The spark to the revolt was provided by the third...by Wat Tyler , one of the peasant leaders, at Smithfield...lasting achievement of the revolt was that very few poll taxes...
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Peasants' War, German
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...Europe's peasant revolts. In 1524 – 1525 peasant armies briefly...involving only the peasants. The rebellion...Efforts to rename the revolt as "an early bourgeois...NARRATIVE OF EVENTS The Peasants' War is best understood...not as a single revolt but as a set ...
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Tax Revolts
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...they seem to be ubiquitous. Peasant revolts against land taxes...likely to explain all tax revolts. Indeed, there seem to be...explanation for some kinds of tax revolts. Indeed, it is not clear...events constitute “ revolts, ” since voters...political choice. The tax ...
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Peasants' War
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Peasants' War, formerly called the ‘Peasant Revolt’. A series of insurrections of the German peasants in 1524–6. The immediate...and the economic distress of the peasants was real. T. Müntzer...
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revolt
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...something as having authority: voters may revolt when they realize the cost of the measures...person or body by rebelling: a countrywide revolt against the central government | the peasants rose in revolt. ∎ a refusal to continue...
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