As a professor of medieval Europe, I’ve taught the bubonic plague, and how it contributed to the English Peasant Revolt of 1381. Now that America is experiencing widespread unrest in the midst of its ...

Why and how did the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 happen? In this video, we break down the causes behind one of medieval England’s most dramatic uprisings. From oppressive taxes and economic hardship to ...

Until somewhat recently, writes BBC News reporter Melissa Hogenboom, “the Peasants Revolt of 1381 is largely believed to have been led by a mob of rebel men.” But contemporary research by Sylvia ...

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The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. Even historians who did not have a predetermined response, however, were thrilled by the drama recounted in several contemporary chronicles: the march on London by the ...

During the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, it was commonplace among historians that the common people of medieval England had remained substantially pagan in their religious beliefs.