Medieval Europe
5) To what extent is it possible to identify expressions of dissent from the lower orders in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries?
European society in 14th and 15th century Europe was generally dictated by a fundamentally feudalistic society, greedy monarchs, national campaigns of pillaging and conquest and horrors such as the black plague. As a result of these factors combined with many others such as the divisions between the lower orders of society and European nobility, it is possible to identify many expressions of dissent from the lower orders of European society during the medieval era.
One of the most documented outbreaks of public dissent during this era is without doubt the infamous Peasant's revolt otherwise known as the 14th century poll tax riots in England in 1381. In the aftermath of the catastrophic Black Death 1348-9, England was in turmoil politically, economically and possibly most importantly socially. As a result the British nobility and Monarchy in......
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