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The “Peasants’ Revolt”
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10.00 | Coffee on arrival | ||
10.15 | “Now Is Tyme” – the Background to the Great Rising in Suffolk of 1381 What were the basic factors which provoked the “Innocent and Peaceful” county to violent rebellion? We shall consider the following: Over-population, Climate Change, Famine and Pestilence, Government Legislation, Villeinage-by-blood, Taxation, Small-scale capitalism, Radical clerics, and Conventicles. |
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11.15 | Coffee | ||
11.40 | Documentary Sources The wealth of sources include Chronicles, Monastic records, Courts Baron and Leet evidence. Do we have information overload - “... not until the last court-roll has been read...?” |
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12.40 | Lunch break | ||
14:00 | From the Liston Assembly to Bury St. Edmunds Was the march on Bury St Edmunds pre-planned or spontaneous? We shall examine the “Principal Leaders”, the Bromfeld Affair, and the “King of Suffolk”. |
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15:00 | Tea break | ||
15:15 | Across the County Communications; Rebel Activity; The Real Agenda? Suppression, Reprisals and the Aftermath Staged executions by the state; Pardons; When was it really over? Longer-term effects; The end of high-demesne farming. |
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16:15 | Close |
John Ridgard specialises in Medieval Latin Palaeo-graphy and Medieval Suffolk. He is the author of Medieval Framlingham: Select documents 1270-1524, Suffolk Records Society 27 (Boydell 1985). He is currently working on a second volume of Framlingham records as well as a study of Suffolk in the Great Revolt of 1381.
Bailey, M., Medieval Suffolk: An Economic and Social History, 1200-1500 (Woodbridge 2007)
Dobson, R.B., The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 (MacMillan 1983)
Dymond, D. & Northeast, P., A History of Suffolk (Phillimore 1995)
Powell, E., The East Anglian Rising, 1381 (Cambridge University Press 1896)
Ridgard, J., Medieval Framlingham: Select Documents 1270-1524 (Suffolk Records Society 1985)
Rumble, A. (ed.) Domesday Book – Suffolk (Phillimore 1986)
Scarfe, N., The Suffolk Landscape (Hodder & Stoughton 1972, Alastair 1986)
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