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Rebellion in the Middle Ages

Dec 19, 2022

anniversaries, battles, Book Reviews, buildings, law, religion

Archbishop of Canterbury, Arthur of Brittany, Azincourt, Bannockburn, Barons’ War, Battle of Evesham, Battle of Hastings, Battle of Lewes, Battle of Shrewsbury, Black Death, Blackheath, Boroughbridge, Canterbury Cathedral, Crusades, Edmund Duke of Somerset, Edward I, Edward II, Eleanor of Aquitaine, executions, First Battle of St. Albans, France, Geoffrey of Brittany, Henry Cardinal Beaufort, Henry II, Henry III, Henry IV, Henry the Young King, Henry V, Henry VI, Hereward the Wake, House of Lancaster, Hugh Despencer, Hugh Despencer the Younger, Humphrey of Gloucester, insanity, Isabelle de France, Isle of Ely, Jack Cade, John, John Ashdown-Hill, John Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord Protector of the Realm, Lords Ordainers, Magna Carta, Matilda, Matt Lewis, murder, Parliament, Peasants’ Revolt, Peterborough Abbey, Piers Gaveston, rebellions, Richard Duke of York, Richard I, Richard II, Robert of Gloucester, Roger Mortimer, Royal Marriage Secrets, Scarborough Castle, secret marriage, Southampton plot, St. Thomas Becket, Stephen, The Anarchy, Thomas of Lancaster, Tower of London, usurpation, Wakefield, Wars of the Roses, William Duke of Suffolk, William I, William Marshall

This is the latest of Matthew Lewis’ books and covers a longer period than any of the others, from Hereward the Wake’s emergence after Hastings to the beginning of the Wars of the Roses, almost as long a period as this book. Lewis is already an expert on “The Anarchy” (chapter 2) and the Roses (10) but each chapter follows the last, almost seamlessly, with a clear connection. Henry II features in three consecutive chapters, for instance, whilst Edward II‘s life and mysterious fate is also analysed. Then comes Richard II‘s youth and the Peasants’ Revolt, followed by his deposition and the implosion of the House of Lancaster.

Some of these rebellions succeeded and some failed. This book explains why in greater detail.

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Wanted … – murreyandblue

June 15, 2023 at 12:01 am

[…] Iron Age shields. Part four, in the south, covered a Wiltshire chapel probably demolished during an Anarchy siege, evidence of an Anglo-Dutch battle in the Channel, a former ampitheatre and henge on the […]

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The Peasants’ Revolt and its influence upon today…. – murreyandblue

September 30, 2023 at 12:01 am

[…] have all heard of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, which in this article is called the English Rising, a name new to me. To me it’s a […]

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Buc – murreyandblue

October 1, 2023 at 12:01 am

[…] was beheaded. There are many Latin quotations and much genealogy, although he counts Hereward and the Bigods as ancestors of the Howards, for which there seems not to be evidence. There is a […]

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