Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 498 g
Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 498 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-820160-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
Jack Cade's rebellion of 1450 was one of the most important popular uprisings to take place in England during the Middle Ages. It began as an orchestrated demonstration of political protest by the inhabitants of south-eastern England against the corruption, mismanagement, and oppression of Henry VI's government. When no assurance of any remedy came from the king the rising soon collapsed into violence.
This is the first full-length study of Cade's revolt to be published this century. I. M. W. Harvey charts the course of the rebellion and its associated troubles during the early 1450s, and explores the nature of the society which gave rise to these upheavals. She makes full use of the available contemporary evidence, as well as the work of subsequent historians, in order to uncover the identities of the rebels, explain their actions, assess their relations with the magnates, and to examine
their achievements. Dr Harvey's lucid and scholarly analysis of Jack Cade's rebellion helps make intelligible the eventual collapse of Henry VI's reign into the Wars of the Roses.
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The south-east of England; The growth of discontent during the 1430s and 1440s; Crisis comes, 1449-1450; Cade's rebellion in Kent and Middlesex; Rebellion throughout southern England in 1450; Popular revolt during the 1450s; The outcome of Cade's rebellion; Appendix A: The Bills of Complaint of 1450; Appendix B: the Pardon Roll of July 1450; Select bibliography; Index
