Description: Juliet Barker provides an account of the first great popular uprising in England and a fascinating study of medieval life in English towns and countryside. She tells how and why an unlikely group of ordinary men and women from every corner of England united in armed rebellion against church and state to demand a radical political agenda.
Brief description: Juliet Barker is one of Britain's most distinguished literary biographers and medievalists and author of Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England.
Review Quotes: Barker's book is a thorough and workmanlike study...offering a close look at what things were actually like.--Eric Christiansen "New York Review of Books" (7/9/2015 12:00:00 AM)