Literary Review 427

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last posted Jan. 2, 2015, 3:15 p.m.

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From a Helen Castor's review of England Arise:

"Away with the learning of clerks. Away with it!"

A quote from the town versus gown uprising in Cambridge.

The origins of the Peasant's War stem from a doomed attempt by the elite to retain their privileges after the Black Death but there's a point in the review that rebellion begins when aspirations are stymied either by corruption or situation.

The uprising, no matter what the reprisals, did mean the end of serfdom and the manumission of the participants did lead to the idea that conflict, not collaboration could yield results.

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