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The Life & Legend of a Rebel Leader: Wat Tyler
Stephen Basdeo
出版
Pen and Sword
, 2018-02-28
主題
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
Biography & Autobiography / Military
ISBN
1526709813
9781526709813
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=prPNDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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In 1381, England was on the brink - the poor suffered the effects of war, the Black Death, and Poll Tax. At this time the brave Wat Tyler arose to lead the commoners, forming an army who set off to London to meet with King Richard II and present him with a list of grievances and demands for redress. Tyler was treacherously struck down by the Lord Mayor. His head hacked from his shoulders, pierced on a spike, and made a spectacle on London Bridge. Yet he lived on through the succeeding centuries as a radical figure, the hero of English Reformers, Revolutionaries, and Chartists.The Life and Legend of a Rebel Leader: Wat Tyler examines the eponymous hero's literary afterlives. Unlike other medieval heroes such as King Arthur or King Alfred, whose post medieval manifestations were supposed to inspire pride in the English past, if Wat Tyler's name was invoked by the people, the authorities had something to fear.