Either way, economic historians generally do not believe religious authorities had significant control over the total number of days per year peasants worked. Instead, economic historians ...
Either way, economic historians generally do not believe religious authorities had significant control over the total number of days per year peasants worked. Instead, economic historians ...
The Peasants' Revolt of 1381, also known as Tyler's Revolt and The 14th Century Poll Tax Riots, happened for complex and varied reasons. Two of the main reasons were the Black Death (1334-51 ...
The fear of losing both the minimum support price (MSP) and the freedom to cultivate crops also played an important role in the unions’ mobilization of peasants against these laws. This was the first ...
Scheidel, Walter 1999. Emperors, aristocrats, and the grim reaper: towards a demographic profile of the Roman élite. The Classical Quarterly, Vol. 49, Issue. 1, p. 254.
How an unpopular new tax led to the greatest uprising in the history of Medieval England, the Peasants' Revolt of 1308, and how young Richard II defused it. Professor Robert Bartlett tells the ...