Medieval History
The CBC Radio show As it Happens interviewed Professor Sylvia Federico of Bates College about her research on Women in the 1381 Peasant's Revolt. You can download the podcast here. The seven minute segment appears at about the 25 minute mark of the podcast.
Click here to visit the As it Happens website
Click here to read Peasants' Revolt: The time when women took up arms
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Medieval History
Interview with Sylvia Federico on Women in the Peasants' Revolt
Click here to visit the As it Happens website
Click here to read Peasants' Revolt: The time when women took up arms
- Sarasota's Medieval Fair Compares Peasants Revolt Of 1381 With Occupy Movement
The Occupy movement is spreading across the globe because people are tired of the 1%'s greed forcing the 99% further into poverty and wage slavery. But a theatrical rendition in Sarasota Sunday reminded people this isn't the first time in history...
- Face Of 14th-century Archbishop Of Canterbury Revealed
The face of Simon of Sudbury, the controversial former Archbishop of Canterbury, was revealed last week ? 630 years after he met his grizzly end during the Peasant?s Revolt of 1381. Using skeletal detail taken from his part-mummified skull, forensic artist...
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Like a postcard sent from the battle ground, a Roman sword, still in its leather-bound wooden scabbard, was unearthed in a Jerusalem ditch where it had apparently lain since the revolt that destroyed the Second Temple almost 2,000 years ago. Archaeologist...
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It?s fair to assume that Valdemar the Conqueror, while ruling over Denmark in the early 1200s, ate like a king. But, what was the diet like for the peasants below him? The answer depends on where in Denmark the peasants called home. Radford University...
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Liz Scala and Sylvia Federico have recently published an essay collection of great interest to scholars of medievalism, The Post-Historical Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). The publisher's summary reads: "This collection of original essays...