Jack Cade's rebellion of 1450 was one of the most important popular
uprisings to take place in England during the Middle Ages. It began
as an orchestrated demonstration of political protest by the
inhabitants of south-eastern England against the corruption,
mismanagement, and oppression of Henry VI's government. When no
assurance of any remedy came from the king the rising soon
collapsed into violence. This is the first full-length study of
Cade's revolt to be published this century. I. M. W. Harvey charts
the course of the rebellion and its associated troubles during the
early 1450s, and explores the nature of the society which gave rise
to these upheavals. She makes full use of the available
contemporary evidence, as well as the work of subsequent
historians, in order to uncover the identities of the rebels,
explain their actions, assess their relations with the magnates,
and to examine their achievements. Dr Harvey's lucid and scholarly
analysis of Jack Cade's rebellion helps make intelligible the
eventual collapse of Henry VI's reign into the Wars of the Roses.
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