What happens when the peasants are fed up? After years of taxes, military failure, and arbitrary justice, the English peasants finally rise up against their superiors. What follows is no mere riot, but a coordinated assault on those in charge. In the first narrative in our Hundred Years’ War saga, we see just how similar we are to our medieval ancestors.

Sources:

Dunn, Alastair (2002). The Great Rising of 1381: the Peasants' Revolt and England's Failed Revolution. Stroud, UK: Tempus. ISBN 978-0-7524-2323-4

Dyer, Christopher (2009). Making a Living in the Middle Ages: the People of Britain 850–1520. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10191-1

Jones, Dan (2010). Summer of Blood: the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. London: Harper Press. ISBN 978-0-00-721393-1. 

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