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"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crossley, James G. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.