Spectres of John Ball : the Peasants' Revolt in English political history, 1381-2020 /
"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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Sheffield, South Yorkshire ; Bristol, CT :
Equinox Publishing Ltd,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.