The Peasants' Revolt [Long Shorts]

Photo by [Duncan], CC-BY-SA

[Tjalve]

"The peasants are revolting!"
"Oh, come on, they may be a bit smelly, but they're not THAT bad."

[xJRSUMMERSx]

Adore your delivery of “someone let them in” made me chuckle :)

[TakoyakiStore]

When your tax collector is not only agreeing that taxes are too high but that it's so high that they are willing to join a revolt to storm the castle you know the taxes are bad. 😂

[joermnyc]

Well if you’re one guard at a door, and a couple hundred people turn up, “Do come in. Mind the garden plants, thank you.”

[cassandraxiv]

People always talk about how the peasants are revolting, but I think the nobility is often more revolting...

[tremorsfan]

"I think we should give the guards a raise"
"Why would we want to do that?"

[ramel]

They lesson of the peasant's revolt is never trust promises from people in power unless you can keep them under threat. The peasants took the king's word, and they paid dearly for that mistake

[thoughtfuloutsider]

It's a great story... but also proof that real change takes a long time. Serfdom lasted another century and more. Some of what they asked repeatedly thru these protests and on to the civil war in the 1650s, and it still took another 250-300 years to become part of law and culture.

[myladycasagrande]

The title made me think of an old Wizard of Id comic.
Knight: The peasants are revolting!
King: You can say that again.

[davidrodgersNJ]

From Mel Brooks: Lord: "Your majesty, the peasants are revolting!" King: "They certainly are!" :P

[Noobgalaxies]

I for one welcome our new co-host, bird-on-windowsill

[vathek]

‘When Adam delved and Eve span,
Who then was the gentleman?’

Ideas were raised in the Peasants’ Revolt that wouldn’t really be revisited in England until the Civil War era — ideas of social and political reform that were still strongly rooted in Christian theology, because the secularisation of political theory in the Enlightenment had yet to occur. A fascinating event, centuries ahead of its time. Growing up in St. Albans, I used to walk past the site at which many of the leaders were executed every day.

[bigchungus]

"That was new"

The French taxing the peasants exclusively to pay for everything

[gypsydildopunks]

I love your enthusiasm, it's lovely. Thanks again, British Lady

[your_average_nerd]

This channel and Horrible Histories is what got me into learning about history

[sluggo]

I was just listening to ASMR Historian on the Black Death and he recommended learning about the Peasants' Revolt, so this video came at an opportune time.

[Michael_Hester]

I love the bird didn't chirp. It chirruped. That's how you know it is a British bird!

[digitaljanus]

One common thing to be aware of when looking at medieval history in Western Europe: most of the sources come from the societal elites (clergy, noble courtiers, or Church-trained clerks) for whom "literate" meant "fluent in Latin". Many merchants and wealthier peasants would have been quite literate in their native languages but not have access to Latin education and so not considered literate by Church-trained writers. And with most writing of the period being preserved by churches, monasteries, universities, and the private collections of the nobility, whatever writing the lower classes might have produced is mostly lost.

[chrisball]

'When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?' I'm mostly pro-Peasant's Revolt because of all the calls to abolish the nobility and hold all land in common. But they did do some absolutely disgusting massacres of immigrants, particularly targeting 'Flemings', i.e. Dutch speakers from modern-day Belgium. Definitely not cool.

[janetmackinnon]

It is always a pleasure to learn from you. Thank you.