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Dreams of John Ball: Reading the Peasants’ Revolt in the Nineteenth Century

2009; Routledge; Volume: 31; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/08905490902857426

1477-2663

Anna Vaninskaya,

Philippine History and Culture

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes [1] See Maurice 144. In A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Rogers expresses his doubts about accepting "the authority" of Walsingham and Knighton "on such a subject" (1: 98). [2] Raymond Williams in Writing in Society mentions a "popular series of historical novels about Wat Tyler or Jack Cade" in the early to mid‐Victorian period (155). [3] See Juliette Wood, "Folklore Studies at the Celtic Dawn: The Role of Alfred Nutt as Publisher and Scholar". Alfred Trubner Nutt (son of David Nutt) was an important Celticist and folklorist, founding member and President of the Folklore Society. His wife took over the firm after his death in 1910 and published Robert Frost and suffragist literature. There were also the Grimm and the Northern Libraries, Arthurian Romance series, and Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore. [4] C. E. Maurice used Johnes's (144); William Morris had read both the Berners and the Johnes. In 1857 he dedicated the two‐volume Johnes translation to Louisa MacDonald. [5] See David Knowles, "The Rolls Series" and Sylvia Marchant, "The Rolls Series". [6] See James M. Dean, "John Ball's Sermon Theme". [7] Leatham quotes Morris and Rogers; Robert Blatchford, editor of the most widely circulated socialist periodical, the Clarion, quoted Green in My Favourite Books. According to Rogers in Six Centuries, Wyclif's poor priests, "the most active and outspoken" of whom he believed Ball to be, "had honeycombed the minds of the upland folk with what may be called religious socialism"; the Revolt takes its place in the annals as "an insurrection of frantic communism" (268, 255, 254, 261–2). Green used phrases like "the declaration of the rights of man", "the socialist dreams of the peasantry", "the socialist peasant leaders", and "the tyranny of property that then as ever roused the defiance of socialism" (243, 252, 233, 243). In England in the Age of Wycliffe, G. M. Trevelyan had to take time out especially to assert that "the attempt to picture the Rising as a communistic movement ignores the plainest facts" (197). [8] Rogers's A History of Agriculture and Prices and A Manual of Political Economy: For Schools and Colleges, among others, were published by the Clarendon Press (although he used many other publishers, including Macmillan and T. Fisher Unwin). [9] It expanded but essentially kept to the same narrative as that given in History of Agriculture (1: 80–98). That volume also had no footnotes or references, but included a lot of tables of prices, etc. [10] For a very detailed discussion of Burne‐Jones's frontispiece, its medieval sources and its late‐nineteenth‐century artistic and intellectual context, see Eisenman 92–110. [11] All of the items referred to below may be found in the Labour History Archive, Socialist Sunday School, Ivy Tribe Collection, History Related Material, and Box Four. For an overview of the British Socialist Sunday School movement see F. Reid, "Socialist Sunday Schools in Britain, 1892–1939", and J. Simmons, Socialist Sunday Schools: Potted History (typescript of extracts from the Labour Leader bearing on the formation of the Socialist Sunday Schools in the Labour History Archive). [12] In his account of the curricula of American Socialist Sunday Schools, Kenneth Teitelbaum provides a good overview of the use of dramatic scripts, including plays specifically written by socialist educators, some on historical themes. [13] "Although there was no Socialist Party then, there were a number of friars or priests" who fulfilled the same function (96). [14] The Oxford military historian, student of Stubbs, and prolific writer of textbooks, Charles Oman, also wrote about The Great Revolt of 1381.