600 years ago a king tried to deny a post-pandemic labor shortage was real — and it ended up killing hundreds of people
According to Jones, the same kind of shift in worker power 600 years ago caused wealthy landowners to panic. They petitioned their rulers to help save them from financial ruin.
Under the next king, Richard II, these ordinances, along with a slew of new, higher taxes finally triggered what is known as the Peasants' Revolt, the first great popular rebellion in English history. The king agreed to their demands, but he demanded that traitors be turned in. That is where things went wrong.
The next time he had an audience with the king, Tyler demanded"an absolute end to all lordship except the king's and the complete confiscation and redistribution of church lands," Jones writes. The revolt finally ended when the rebels were crushed by the militant bishop of Norwich,In a previous book, 2010's"Summer of Blood," Jones estimated the number of dead among the rebels alone was roughly 1,500.
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