Daily Medieval

Was Lollardy popular? Besides for Sir John Oldcastle and John Wycliffe , I mean. Because Lollards believed that baptism and confession wer...

Simon of Sudbury, or just Simon Sudbury, was one of those people who shows up here and there, for instance during the Peasants' Revolt w...

Whan Adam delf, and Eve span, Wo was thanne a gentilman? This was part of a sermon allegedly delivered in Blackheath the night before that g...

The term "Flemish" has been used since the 1300s to refer to a certain group of people. What does it mean to be Flemish? The word ...

After the Knights Templar were dissolved in 1312, Pope Clement V wanted all their property turned over to the Knights Hospitallers. King Edw...

The Peasants Revolt of 1381 was an uprising against...let's say "government overreach." It was not a simple protest, however. ...

The Peasant's Revolt of 1381 was the result of several factors , first enumerated and named in A Short History of the English People (J...

The climax of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 On the heels of the recent news article about how victims of the Bubonic Plague still exi...

Edward I receiving homage; Lord Borchard de Herle is on the far right Does a diplomat owe his loyalty to his monarch or his mission? Can...

The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was mentioned last year over a five-day span , but the events in London weren't the only expression of ...

We have so often heard the phrase "hanged, drawn and quartered" that we probably don't think about the details--or perhaps we...

John Wycliffe (c.1320-1384) was politically active and a reformer whose brilliance as a theologian was originally admired widely. Eventuall...

John Wycliffe (c.1324-1384), first discussed yesterday , started his career as a respectable Oxford scholar and theologian. His religion and...

...and he's only 14! So... Tens of thousands have damaged London and remain a threat. King Richard goes out to calm them down and pr...

June 12th Wat Tyler and thousands of middle- and lower-class followers reached Blackheath by June 12th, and heard John Ball's famous s...

Wat Tyler & Jack Straw The Peasants' Revolt was not just the result of a stirring sermon by John Ball. All of the counties of Kent...

The Peasants' Revolt--Other Causes The lower classes were not just worked up by a sermon about social equality, or the statutes that t...

The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 The statutes that attempted to restrict the peasant workforce to pre-Plague levels of wages, etc., did no...

"Free"dom isn't "free" Before discussing the first "Occupy" movement--the Peasants' Revolt of 1381--...