Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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Page 331
... peasants ' revolt and its repression were over . Only the smouldering ashes of anger and resentment remained ; that ... peasants had risen , they had loosed their vengeance on the entire ruling class , murdering , raping , torturing and ...
... peasants ' revolt and its repression were over . Only the smouldering ashes of anger and resentment remained ; that ... peasants had risen , they had loosed their vengeance on the entire ruling class , murdering , raping , torturing and ...
Page 332
... peasants of France , Flanders and Italy had ever come . They had done so because their cause was based , not on mere desperation or unthinking anger , but on certain elementary principles of justice on which , when they could free their ...
... peasants of France , Flanders and Italy had ever come . They had done so because their cause was based , not on mere desperation or unthinking anger , but on certain elementary principles of justice on which , when they could free their ...
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... Peasants ' Revolt of 1381 the genius of the Common Law was granting to the bondsman rights which it regarded as the ... peasant community , often in the teeth of tyrannical encroachment , preserved and extended its rights . In such ...
... Peasants ' Revolt of 1381 the genius of the Common Law was granting to the bondsman rights which it regarded as the ... peasant community , often in the teeth of tyrannical encroachment , preserved and extended its rights . In such ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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