1381 : the year of the Peasants' Revolt / Juliet Barker.
1381 : the year of the Peasants' Revolt / Juliet Barker.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
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G 2015/4468
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Language
English
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Physical content
xix, 506 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
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...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
Edition
First Harvard University Press edition.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2014.
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Summary
Written with the fluency readers have come to expect from Juliet Barker, 1381: The Year of the Peasant's Revolt provides an account of the first great popular uprising in England and its background, and paints on a broad canvas a picture of English life in medieval times. Skeptical of contemporary chroniclers' accounts of events, Barker draws on th...
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1381 : the year of the Peasants' Revolt / Juliet Barker.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-476) and index.
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G 2015/4468
Record Identifier
74VKRbNaZGKb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKRbNaZGKb
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ISBN
0674368142 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780674368149 (cloth : alk. paper)
DDC
942.038
MMS ID
991023247269702626
