Revolt of the Peasantry 1549

ISBN-13: 9781032043852 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 254 str.

Julian Cornwall

Opis

This book, first published in 1977, looks at the two peasant revolts that occurred in 1549, in the troubled period following the death of Henry VIII. The uprisings reveal a harsh background of economic and social injustice, intensified at the time by inflation.

Spis treści

1. Agrarian Problems and Others  2. A Land Apart  3. Protest and Provocation  4. Half Measures  5. The Siege of Exeter  6. War of Words  7. The Norfolk Rising  8. The Battle of Fenny Bridges  9. Fiasco at Norwich  10. Clyst St Mary and the Relief of Exeter  11. Sampford Courtenay and the Pacification of Cornwall  12. Dussindale  13. The Reckoning

O autorze

Julian Cornwall