A fascinating and evocative account of the Peasants' Revolt from the acclaimed author of Agincourt.
Born in Yorkshire, Juliet Barker was educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she studied history. Widely acclaimed for setting new standards of literary biography, she is also an expert on chivalry and the world authority on medieval English tournaments. Her books include The Brontes, Conquest and the bestselling Agincout. In 1999 she was one of the youngest ever recipients of an honorary Doctorate of Letters,awarded by the University of Bradford in recognition of her outstanding contribution to literary biography, and in 2001 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is married,with two children, and lives in the South Pennines.www.julietbarker.co.uk
Juliet Barker's thorough, clear-eyed and intelligent new volume
adds much to the field: packed with vivid pen portraits of the
rebels and the men they hunted . . . a vivid and exciting portrait
of a country in angry upheaval. It is as timely subject matter as
ever
*Sunday Times*
A richly detailed account of the England of 1381 based on
painstaking detective work
*The Times*
Fine and thoughtful . . . Barker brilliantly picks through the
toxic brew of grievances that would, in 1381, boil over . . . a
serious and valuable book
*Literary Review*
Timely and comprehensive . . . We could argue all day over our
favourite turning points in England's history. Barker shows that,
without doubt, the turmoil of 1381 cannot be left off anyone's
list
*New Statesman*
Barker brings order to the patchwork of uprisings
England, Arise purposely slows down the vertiginous speed of the
revolt's progression to a more deliberate pace, in order to explore
not that main events of the rebellion but their hinterland. In
this, it is a considerable achievement, a meticulous anatomy of
this most resonant of uprisings
*Guardian*
A riveting new study of the rising
*Mail on Sunday*
Barker gives a richly detailed account of the England of 1381 based
on painstaking detective work and resurrects from obscurity the
ordinary men and women who enflamed the country
*The Times*
A thoroughly researched, engagingly written account of a moment
when the world was - almost - turned upside down
*BBC History*
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