‘Grace for the rebels’: the role of the royal pardon in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381
This article focuses on the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 as a means of examining some of the late medieval assumptions about the nature of royal mercy. Rather than adding to the weight of scholarship on the causes and characteristics of the Revolt, this article discusses the views on mercy (‘grace for t...
Main Author: | Lacey, H |
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Format: | Journal article |
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Routledge
2012
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