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The great rising of 1381 : the peasants' revolt and England's failed revolution / Alastair Dunn.

by Dunn, Alastair.

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Charleston, SC : Tempus, 2002.

Tyler's Insurrection, 1381.

Peasant uprisings -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500.

Great Britain -- History -- Richard II, 1377-1399.

9780752423234 (paperback)

175 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm

The rural world of the fourteenth century -- War and peace : England 1377-1381 -- The rebels and their arms -- The outbreak : 10-13 June -- The king and the rebels -- The county risings -- The aftermath -- The rising in history.

"The Great Rising is a re-interpretation of the revolt, the rebels and their often colourful leaders, and is the first new history for nearly one hundred years. Alastair Dunn charts the causes of the Great Rising, and examines how the burgeoning economic expectations of the generation succeeding the Black Death were frustrated by the landlords' determined defense of serfdom, and the growing burden imposed upon the people by the crown, culminating in the hated Poll Taxes. He asks whether the Great Rising had a coherent set of aims linking its participants in different parts of England, follows the dramatic story of the rebels in London, and highlights the largely forgotten, but equally exciting story of rebellion in other parts of England."--Jacket.

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