Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Context: 1. The 1549 rebellions; 2. 'Precious bloody shedding': repression and resistance, 1549–1553; Part II. Political Language: 3. Speech, silence and the recovery of rebel voices; 4. Rebel political language; Part III. Consequences: 5. The decline of insurrection in later sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England; 6. Memory, myth and representation: the later meanings of the 1549 rebellions; Bibliography; Index.
A major study of the 1549 rebellions, the largest and most important risings in Tudor England.
Andy Wood is Reader in Social History at the School of History, University of East Anglia. His first book, The Politics of Social Conflict: the Peak Country, 1520-1770 (1999), was declared Proxime Accesitt in 1999 for the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize.
'... brilliant study ... fascinating work ...Wood offers a rich narrative of the events ... the greatest strength of the book: its attentiveness to the voices of the rebels themselves.' BBC History Magazine
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