#Peasants' Revolt

[randomlikeliness]

When Chen Qian Qian mentioned imposing a poll tax to fix the city's finances and I shivered in Peasants' Revolt (1381), Jack Straw, general history and this is a horrible idea someone please tell her this is a horrible idea.

[giannic]

The Peasants Revolt 1381 | A Bloody Uprising of the Common People

[annablogsposts]

Whump idea: hundreds of years ago, peasants revolt against the upper class. A knight / noble / lord / prince was abducted, and was pretty much just an absolute punching bag for all of them. To the point where he’s just broken.

A farmer, or laborer or something, sees him and is just like “this is too far” and discreetly cares for him; giving him lots of water, giving him extra porridge, letting him sleep inside when no one is looking etc.

and the noble is initially distrustful after all he’s been through, but soon he becomes insanely grateful and feels indebted to him for this.

If anyone would like to write this, please do!! I’d love to read it :)

[atopvisenyashill]

There were so many ways to die, and if the king should perish, who then would follow him? King Aegon himself, when asked, put forward his cupbearer, Gaemon Palehair, reminding the regents that the boy had “been a king before.”

As a bastard born of a whore, Gaemon counted for little in the court, so when Ser Gareth asked Lord Peake to make the lad the king’s whipping boy, the Hand was pleased to do so. Gaemon’s blood and Gaemon’s tears reached the king as none of Gareth Long’s words ever had, and His Grace’s improvement was soon marked by every man who watched him in the castle yard, but the king’s mislike of his teacher only deepened.

[redjennies]

you cannot convince me Brother Guy killed Otto because you cannot convince me Brother Guy is the kind of person who would go somewhere because a cryptic note told him to. seriously the man spends two days barricaded in a library by angry peasants and the person investigating the murder that's going to get them all killed if he doesn't throw someone to the mob hates his fucking guts and possibly threatened to deck him TWICE and yet every time you show up with evidence of his shady behavior, he's still like "hon hon, prove it." like my brother in Christ, you ARE the most suspicious person involved. so yeah, you cannot tell me this smarmy bitch looked at that note and didn't go

[jonasgoonface]

use what u got 2 get what u need

lines are from “The Helm of Ned Kelly” by Blackbird Raum

[postoctobrist]

The Two Kinds of German Peasant Revolt Flags

gay, wordy

BOOT

[ladymazzy]

Public invited to swear their allegiance as king is crowned

This is all completely normal

Nothing to see here

Move along

[illustratus]

The Jacquerie (1358) by Henri Grobet

[maniculum]

Question: what type of music WOULD kill a medieval peasant? All I can think of is "something that would be the inciting incident to a war, wherein a lot of them would die".

When I saw the preview of this ask, I had exactly the same thought, but you've clearly beaten me to it.

That said, here are the three songs I'd pitch in ascending order of how much trouble I think it would get them into:

A classic, but not outright incitement to violence, so it depends on how things shake out: https://youtu.be/R8eK9ZXf-Ow

Definitely calling for violence; modern references might muddy things a bit, though, so it may not catch on: https://youtu.be/uxXDVg5_M3Q

Playing this is like wearing a big sign that says "execute me please", high likelihood of getting peasants killed: https://youtu.be/O89GUfZPuoI

You'd probably have to translate them, though. Genuinely I'd like to hear all of these in a Middle English version, to the point where I'm currently repeating to myself that I do not want to throw that kind of translation project onto my plate right now.

[priafey]

i couldn't reblog the post @abstractredd tagged me in, so i'll just share the OC template through here :3

i completed it with gwilin because, as you all know, he's basically an OC of mine. several, if you count each of the gwilins from my many gwilinverses.

hd version of the template here

[racefortheironthrone]

About anti-monarchical rebellions: Doesn't Wat Tyler &co count? "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the Gentleman?" sounds more anti-hierarchical than "nobles should be nicer"?

So I talked about this in the links in my original post. (This is why I put them in, because I tend to develop these ideas in many places over time, so you have to step back a bit to see the whole tapestry.)

The Great Peasants' Revolt of 1381 would certainly count as anti-noble and anti-clerical, but that's not the same thing as anti-monarchical.

To quote myself:

For example, we can see the third face of power in the fact that, even though Wat Tyler had seized London, he still felt that he needed King Richard to give the commons a charter of liberty and trusted that the King would keep his word that he would issue one and his word that Wat Tyler would not be harmed during a parlay.

Wat Tyler, John Ball, Jack Straw and the rest of the Great Society were remarkably anti-hierarchical - they drew on Biblical authority to deny the existence of nobility as a concept and to challenge the right of clergy to hold secular property.

However, their radicalism stopped at the foot of the throne. Whether it was because Richard II was a boy-king or because of some lingering nostalgia over the memory of his father the Black Prince or the propaganda that had been drummed into them at birth that this was a god-anointed sovereign, they could not believe that the king was personally complicit in the oppression of the commons. It's all the fault of evil councilors around him like that bastard John of Gaunt.

Unfortunately, much like the poor deluded followers of Father Gapon, they were very wrong about their monarch. Richard II was very much ideologically aligned with his uncle of Gaunt, had no problems breaking his oath to Wat Tyler and his men, and as far as I'm concerned was a tyrant who was ultimately overthrown because he had lost the mandate of heaven.

But you don't see John Ball calling Richard II a "new Reheboam" in the same way that the religious radicals of the English Civil War called Charles I the "man of blood."

[mamomare]

Ultimate Decades Challenge: 1380 - 1390

* TW: This post contains mention of characters who died during pregnancy/childbirth.

A decade of poor luck and the revolt of the peasants has meant the 1380s might be our most brutal decade yet. In 1381, we lost the Wright and Smith household, as they were executed due to the Peasants Revolt. However, the main Brooker household has also seen a decade of prosperity, as they move into their new Merchant home in the Market Square and, eventually, find success in silk trading. 

Marriages [2] 1381 - Osanna and Henry Shaw 1389 - Edmund and Eunice Brooker

Births [5] 1383 - Ailova Fletcher 1383 - Norman Shaw 1385 - Winifred Fletcher 1387 - Walter Clifford 1388 - Philip Brooker Deaths [8] 1381 - Ivett Wright, Alaric Smith, Gerard Wright (Executed) 1383 - Henry Shaw (Tick bite fever) 1384 - Estrilda Brooker (Fire) 1386 - Linota Clifford (The Flux) 1387 - Luke Fletcher (Malaria) 1388 - Alicia Fletcher (Birth complications) * Babies that never were [7]: Lina Clifford, Avelina Clifford, Petra Fletcher, Sabine Brooker, Genevieve Brooker, Maud Brooker, Katherine Brooker

Family Tree in 1390

Gameplay Screenshots

See the new Brooker home here!

This version of the Decades Challenge was created by Morbid Gamer

[sauntervaguelydown]

As I was deep in a wikipedia rabbit hole it suddenly occured to me, hey, China has had a LOT of peasant uprisings. Why didn't European kingdoms??

well it turns out Rome had one:

C. E. V. Nixon[3] assesses the bagaudae, from the official Imperial viewpoint, as "bands of brigands who roamed the countryside looting and pillaging". J. C. S. Léon interprets the most completely assembled documentation and identifies the bagaudae as impoverished local free peasants, reinforced by brigands, runaway slaves and deserters from the legions, who were trying to resist the ruthless labor exploitation of the late Roman proto-feudalcolonusmanorial and military systems, and all manner of punitive laws and levies in the marginal areas of the Empire.[4] The Panegyric of Maximian, dating to AD 289 and attributed to Claudius Mamertinus, relates that during the bagaudae uprisings of AD 284–285 in the districts around Lugdunum (Lyon), "simple farmers sought military garb; the plowman imitated the infantryman, the shepherd the cavalryman, the rustic harvester of his own crops the barbarian enemy". In fact they shared several similar characteristics with the Germanic Heruli people. Mamertinus also called them "two-shaped monsters" (monstrorum biformium), emphasising that while they were technically Imperial farmers and citizens, they were also marauding rogues who had become foes to the Empire.

fuck yeah my comrades, you eat that grain, Death to the Empire.

[tiixij]

I didn't want to put my oc tags on the post itself so:

Conversation that happened right before Yekavnet(age 14) was crowned the Girl King of Vasahlia

[peacockstalemusicalstorytelling]

May 8 1373, between the Great Plague and the Pesants' Revolt (very troubled times) Mother Julian of Norwich receives 16 visions in one day which she records in her book "Revelations of Divine Love" - the first book written by a woman in English. Its message is not that we shall not be tried, tempested and troubled but that we shall not be overcome. "All shall be ell and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well."