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**AD-TEAM** · 11-22-2024, 06:11 PM

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Quote:In this compelling account of the "peasants' revolt" of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment but an informed and tactical claim to literacy and rule.

Focusing on six brief, enigmatic texts written by the rebels themselves, Justice places the English peasantry within a public discourse from which historians, both medieval and modern, have thus far excluded them. He recreates the imaginative world of medieval villagers-how they worked and governed themselves, how they used official communications in unofficial ways, and how they produced a disciplined insurgent ideology.

Category:History, Biography, Literature, Education, European History, Historical Biography, World History, Literary Criticism, Education - General & Miscellaneous, British History - General & Miscellaneous, Historical Biography - Britain, Social & Cultural History, English Literature, Medieval History, European Literature, Ancient & Medieval Literature, 1066-1485 (Medieval Period) - British History, Britain - Historical Biography - 1066-1485 (Medieval Period), Britain - Historical Biography - Rulers & Royal Families, British History - Pre-17th Century - General & Miscellaneous, British History - Social Aspects, Communication - History, English Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, General & Miscellaneous Medieval History, Literacy, Medieval English Literature - Literary Criticism, Medieval European Literature - Literary Criticism, Medieval History - Social Aspects

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