Spectres of John Ball : the Peasants' Revolt in English political history, 1381-2020 /
James G. Crossley
Bok · Engelsk · 2022
| Omfang | vi, 537 sider
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| Opplysninger | Introduction: 1381 -- The Quest for the Historical John Ball -- Exit Ball: Late Medieval Receptions -- Ball and the English Reformation -- Ghosts of 1381: Uneasy Heresies, Radicalisms, and Discontents in Late Elizabethan and Early -- Jacobean England -- The Priest of Baal in Revolutionary England -- Perverted Liberty and the End of Stuart England: Ball among Whigs, Tories, Jacobites, and Other -- Mobs -- Georgian John: From Mob Rule to Reasonable Demands -- Revolution, Once Again: A Freeborn Englishman in the Late Eighteenth Century -- The Second Coming of John Ball: John Baxter, Robert Southey, and 1790s Radicalism -- After Waterloo: The Poet Laureate's John Ball -- 'Peaceably If We May, Forcibly If We Must': Ball among the Chartists -- Haranguing after Chartism: The Making of the Victorian Ball -- Class Struggle among the Historians -- William Morris: Delaying Ball's New World -- Still Dreaming of John Ball -- Red John? Ball after the Great War -- Bolshevik Ball -- Cold War Ball -- Rodney Hilton: Ball at the End of Historical Materialism? -- Ball after 1968 -- 1381/1981 -- Twenty-First Century Ball.. - "This book explains how we get from an apocalyptic priest who promoted a theocracy favouring the lower orders and the decapitation of the leading church and secular authorities to someone who promoted democracy and vague notions about love and tolerance"--
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| ISBN | 9781800501362
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