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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (2): 291–319.
Published: 01 May 2006
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 285–311.
Published: 01 May 2022
... a political vision organized around what he and his culture regarded as a virtue: rational obedience to political authority. In his Appeal , the explosive text that was written for the trial of London's mayor in 1384, Usk makes use of charged language tied to the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 in order to depict...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (3): 473–522.
Published: 01 September 2004
...). Similarly, for Engels, evidence for the claim that specifi c social classes were based in the way that a given society produces and exchanges its means of subsistence was to be found in “the feudal rule of the Middle Ages,” which “rested on the self-suffi cient economy of small peasant com- munities” (24...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 493–528.
Published: 01 September 2024
... opportunities outside the peasant household.” The swing to pasture was due to a rising consumption per head of animal produce through the higher living standards of survivors of plague, and it was mainly a feature of the North Sea region where climatic conditions were best suited to stock rearing. Within...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (2): 335–371.
Published: 01 May 2007
.... The benchmarks of this transition were the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, which grounded the anti- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 37:2, Spring 2007 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2007-004  © 2007 by Duke University Press feudal dynamic that would eliminate servile labor in England...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 519–542.
Published: 01 September 2002
... effects of pride at every level of human society, from priests and kings, to peasants and Kalas / Technology of Reflection 531 soldiers. The poem can indeed imagine things better than they are “in deede,” but unlike the false perfect glimmering of the crystal...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 457–491.
Published: 01 September 2024
.... 23 Bruce M. S. Campbell, “Population Pressure, Inheritance, and the Land Market in a Fourteenth-Century Peasant Community,” in Land, Kinship, and Life-Cycle , ed. Richard M. Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 87–134, at 101–7. As table 5 reveals, there is a pronounced...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 453–473.
Published: 01 September 2021
... distribution, a reception enabled by the movement of the processing group itself. In this article, I focus on two distinct episodes: the Revolt of St. Albans in the 1381 Peasants’ Rising and the 1520–21 Rogation procession and mock-muster at Ashby de la Launde in Lincolnshire. Though over a century apart...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 343–365.
Published: 01 May 2015
... that the conflict between the two groups stems from their divergent interpretation of these terms in their public speeches and private exchanges. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 The Life and Death of Jack Straw 1381 Peasant Rising Elizabethan plays and drama rebellion and sovereignty commonwealth...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 497–526.
Published: 01 September 2010
... it does with the potential radicalism already within the Piers Plowman tradition even before it intersects with Protes- tantism.52 This potential is made apparent in the rebels’ use of Piers dur- ing the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. As Steven Justice has discussed in Writing and Rebellion, Piers...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 601–630.
Published: 01 September 2000
... and historiography 5. Colonization and crossing cultures 6. Hispanica 7. The Americas 8. Islamic studies 9. Lords and peasants, villages and towns 10. Merchant enterprise and economies...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 263–287.
Published: 01 May 2016
... the rehabilitation of her rapist.5 In a similar scenario in the anonymous pastourelle dialogue Come over the woodes fair and grene (ca. 1475), a knight riding through the forest encounters a peasant girl gathering flowers by herself.6 He praises her beauty Journal of Medieval...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 325–346.
Published: 01 May 2010
... insights, with a humorous anecdote in order to explain why men alone grow beards, or at least why they in theory should alone grow beards. “There is a story,” he says, about a Greek peasant: He suddenly and with laughter asked a certain philosopher why the beard existed...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (3): 459–462.
Published: 01 September 2011
... peasant beliefs, even as Christian and Muslim authorities sought to impose new ways of thinking. Braudel problematized the question of religious identities for largely stable populations. The studies in this issue of The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, by contrast, focus...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 461–486.
Published: 01 May 2012
... struggles of the sixteenth century in England were about more than peasant displacement; they were based on disputes over classifications of tenure, or to be more precise, copyhold and lease- hold.27 Lupton, in one of the most economically insightful essays on A View, explains the colonial policy...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 41–64.
Published: 01 January 2004
... experience of the religiously sanctioned social marginalization that other women and social groups (such as Jews, prostitutes, and peasants) had to endure. Hrots- vit had the luxury to play the part of a social inferior rather than the mis- fortune to live it.19 Hrotsvit, like her religious house...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 January 2003
... Elvin (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, 1970), 89; Andrew M. Watson, Agricultural Innovation in the Early Islamic World: The Diffusion of Crops and Farming Techniques, 700–1100 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 1. 7 Burton Stein, Peasant State...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 37–63.
Published: 01 January 2010
... of the iconography of the body politic: Blacman’s Henry dresses in the long gown of a citizen (“ad modum burgensis but he also wears the round-toed boots of a laborer, and he often goes bare-headed, as his hat falls off when Henry looks heavenward.49 Shod in the heavy shoes of the peasant, cloaked...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 January 2022
... Consider, for example, an anonymous Middle English lyric that meditates on three of the most tumultuous historical catastrophes of the mid-to-late fourteenth century: the Black Death, the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt, and a 1382 earthquake. 14 The first two of these crises are now well known; the third...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 529–558.
Published: 01 September 2024
... from Peasant to Industrial Capitalism,” Social History 1, no. 3 (1976): 291–315; David Levine, Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism (New York: Academic Press, 1977); David Levine, “Industrialization and the Proletarian Family in England,” Past & Present , no. 107 (May 1985): 168...
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