Description
Book SynopsisA fascinating and evocative account of the Peasants' Revolt from the acclaimed author of
Agincourt.
Trade ReviewJuliet 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 -- Dan Jones * 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 -- Helen Castor * 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 -- Paul Kingsnorth, Booker-nominated author of The Wake * 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
-- Thomas Penn * 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 *
