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1/31/2021

Poverty, Politics and Pandemic: The Plague and the English Peasant's Revolt of 1381

by Alfred Thomas and Peter Rutland

Seen in a historical context of pandemic-induced paranoia, antisemitic conspiracy, and broad-based resentment, the English rebels start to look less like the innocent victims of tyranny and more like the Trump supporters who invaded the Capitol.

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Poverty, Politics and Pandemic: The Plague and the English Peasant's Revolt of 1381

by Alfred Thomas and Peter Rutland