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Popular protest in late medieval English towns
\"Contrary to received opinion, revolts and popular protests in medieval English towns were as frequent and as sophisticated, if not more so, as those in the countryside. This groundbreaking study refocuses attention on the varied nature of popular movements in towns from Carlisle to Dover and from the London tax revolt of Longbeard in 1196 to Jack Cade's Rebellion in 1450, exploring the leadership, social composition, organisation and motives of popular protest. The book charts patterns of urban revolt in times of strong and weak kingship, contrasting them with the broad sweep of ecological and economic change that inspired revolts on the continent. Samuel Cohn demonstrates that the timing and character of popular revolt in England differed radically from revolts in Italy, France and Flanders. In addition, he analyses repression and waves of hate against Jews, foreigners and heretics, opening new vistas in the comparative history of late medieval Europe\"-- Provided by publisher.
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'shame on him who allows them to live': the jacquerie of 1358
In the eyes of the chroniclers, the Jacquerie of 1358 was the most important peasant revolt in late medieval France. Yet, despite this, the uprising has not generated the quality of scholarship that other revolts from the late medieval period have encouraged, such as the Ciompi of 1378 in Florence or the English Peasant’s Revolt of 1381. In popular perception, the Jacquerie remains a violent spasmodic riot typical of the so-called ‘pre-industrial revolt’, itself a model forwarded thirty years ago and never rigorously examined. Rather than focussing on the complexity within the uprising, recent work has concentrated on whether the rebellion was co-opted by elites (a theory that this thesis will debunk); indeed, the last substantial monograph on the subject was Siméon Luce’s Histoire de la Jacquerie in 1896. Luce’s work made use of letters of remission, paid pardons issues by the French crown, to forward a more sympathetic view of the rebels. However, Luce never exploited the documents fully and quoted only occasionally from their narratives. By surveying the remissions systematically, and returning to the full population of documents available, this thesis offers a wholly new view of the revolt – its leadership, its geographical dimensions, duration, organisation and ideology. Moreover, it challenges many old theories about the medieval ‘crowd’ as mindless, doomed to failure and dominated by the clergy and other elites. In their place, it constructs a new model around communal ties in the medieval village, sophisticated organisation within the revolt itself and participants’ identities as the defining factor of the crowd’s ideology.
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10 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT
1 At his home in Perth he has a gymnasium with inspirational quotes scrawled on the walls. \"About a week after we moved into the house the first quote went up in permanent marker, and now the room is literally covered in strong reminders, from people way back in history to things I hear or read today. Two that mean a lot to me are: 'A great life is nothing more than a series of great memories woven together', and 'The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment'.\" 3 He and his wife, Sue, have four young daughters - Jessica, AliRose, Sophie and Grace. \"There aren't many days that go by when I don't mention to Sue that it would be nice to have a little boy running around the house. Having said that, I wouldn't trade my daughters for anything - and although they make fast bowling seem like kids' business, their developing characters are a joy to be a part of. They are all so different and I love them more than anything in the world.\"
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9. His great indulgence is Georgian glass. He has a Jacobite wine glass made in 1745, which he bought in Sydney. \"You can think about the conversations that passed over this glass. And remember, if you were found with a glass like this it was treasonous. [The Jacobite rebellion aimed to restore the Stuart dynasty - Roman Catholics - to the British throne.] It's sort of a record of people's attitudes during that time. Yes, I drink from it ... sherry or fortified wine. It's smaller than a normal wine glass because the liquor was stronger then.\" 2. His favourite movie is Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940). \"The whole taboo of cancer being the killer. Do you remember Mrs Danvers said, 'The sea got her.' Well, we talk about the 'Big C'. I don't know if Daphne du Maurier [who wrote the novel] meant it this way. I also love the film for the clarity of the storytelling by Hitchcock, the black-and-white, the acting of Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier.\"
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10 things you didn't know about ... Simon Burke, actor
3 His fondest memory in television drama was working on Scales of Justice (1983). \"Michael Jenkins directed. It was the beginning for him of hyper-realistic drama productions. To be thrown in the deep end with Bill Hunter and John Hargreaves was very exciting. We had one week of rehearsals at the ABC in Gore Hill. John Hargreaves taught me so much about loving what you do and being a bit of a hoodlum.\" 5 He loves Meryl Streep. \"I love the fun that she has, even if she's ripping your heart out. I met her when I was in LA staying with [Fred Schepisi] and he was about to direct her as Lindy Chamberlain in Evil Angels. I remember us all being out to dinner and she told me that with every character there is always an expression which becomes the touchstone of that character. She even got right the New Zealand vowels of Lindy which came through her Australian accent.\"
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9 After she left school her parents sent her off to Hollywood to be an actress, like [Joan Collins]. \"I did appear in quite a few movies, but if you blinked you missed me. So since I was trying to become a writer at the time it was great research and I loved it. It was not distressing at all because it was not my ambition. I would say that the most distressing times in my life were when I nursed two men through terminal illnesses - first my husband, then my fiance. I have great empathy for the caretakers in this world because the sick person gets all the sympathy, but the person looking after the sick person needs it just as much.\" 3 Her earliest influence was the English children's writer Enid Blyton. \"She was a great inspiration to me as a child. She wrote so many wonderful characters and so many adventurous plots. I particularly loved The Famous Five, but my absolute favourite was The Magic Faraway Tree series. I just thought they were so beautifully done and so evocative of great images. And I have it in mind one day to make a movie of The Magic Faraway Tree - wouldn't that be fun! Although it's not the kind of movie people would expect me to make.\" Her reading habits matured early, though. \"I was really old for my age, so at 13 I switched to Harold Robbins and Henry Miller.\"
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3 When he was 25 he wrote his first novel, The Gods First Make Mad. \"It was rejected by 16 of the world's leading publishers. It was a diatribe on Africa and African politics, and had all the mistakes of a first novel: it was disjointed, there was no hero to identify with, there were long descriptions, flashbacks. I now avoid flashbacks. I do have descriptive passages, but they're carefully tailored.\" 6 He wrote his first successful novel, When The Lion Feeds, with a fountain pen on government stationery. His first marriage had collapsed, he was paying alimony for two children, and he was living miserably in a \"hovel\". He sent the manuscript to London agent Ursula Winant, who took it to Charles Pick at Heinemann. Winant demanded that it be published before Christmas, that the first print- run would be 2000, and that there would be a (pound stg.) 200 advance. \"Charles Pick came back and said he was going to publish immediately, the print-run would be 10,000, and the advance would be (pound stg.) 500.\"
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9. He and the late Lew Hoad burst upon the international tennis scene as 19-year-olds, defeating the seasoned Americans Tony Trabert and Vic Seixas in the Davis Cup of 1953 at Kooyong, Melbourne. They were known as the tennis twins. \"We were pretty close from when we met playing tennis at 12 years old. I was 21 days older than Lew. We were different personalities but we enjoyed each other's company.\" 2. Being an international tennis star meant he frequently met famous people. Among the movie stars he knew over the years were Doris Day, Paul Newman, John Wayne and Charlton Heston. \"Chuck was quite a nice tennis player. He was very helpful in our early professional tennis days. He always participated in tournaments. Doris Day had us out to her house. Very friendly, lovely personality.\"
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3 He was inspired to become a cook by his mother, both grandmothers and his grandfather. \"I can still remember my mother's sponge cakes and my grandmother's damper and brawn. My grandfather smoked his own fish in a little fireplace covered with wet hessian bags.\" He would scour the local library for knowledge. \"I remember secretly borrowing cookbooks and being fascinated by how posh and exciting it all seemed ... My cooking skills passed muster and I moved into the house, an 18th-century folly in Norfolk. It was a huge learning curve, from organising what the gardeners should grow to cooking on 19th- century cookers to learning to pluck pheasants and butcher a deer and entertain the Queen Mother with witty conversation in my kitchen when she was a guest.\" Eat meals at a table, not in front of the telly, and don't rush it - celebrate food. I am a home cook, not a restaurant cook or chef. All the food I cook or the recipes that I write are produced by me in a simple domestic kitchen and designed for readers to cook at home. Not too many ingredients or lengthy methods, and no fancy drizzles of sauce I'll leave that to the restaurant chefs.\"
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9. His three favourite pieces of music are Hey Jude, by The Beatles, Won't Get Fooled Again, by The Who, and In the Hall of the Mountain King, from Grieg's score for the Henrik Isben play Peer Gynt. \"Hey Jude, because everything clicks. It breaks all the rules and yet it doesn't. And you just have to put The Beatles in. Won't Get Fooled Again is many-layered. You get what you want from it. It's a bit like T S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral.\" 10. He met Paul McCartney backstage after a McCartney concert in Sydney. \"I've seen you on the telly,\" McCartney told him. Recalls English: \"I said, 'I'm really sorry to do this to you and bore you, but you guys are the reason I do what I do, and I just wanted to thank you for my career.' And he just looked at me and said, 'That's all right. I once said the same thing to Little Richard.'\" Later, McCartney asked him where the bathroom was, so English took him. As they walked there, he heard someone call out: \"Look, there's [JON ENGLISH]!\"
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