Revolting Peasants: 1381 and All That

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What do peasants, poets, and priests write about when a toxic slurry of starvation, deprivation, and taxation spill over into the largest popular insurrection in English history?  Find out as we look at the literature surrounding the Great Rising of 1381.

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