Summer Of Blood

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Revolt & upheaval in medieval Britain by a brilliant new narrative historian Summer of Blood breaks new ground in its portrayal of the personalities & politics of the bloody days of June 1381. The Peasants Revolt of 1381 is one of the most dramatic & bloody events in English history. Starting with village riots in the Essex countryside chaos rapidly spread across much of the south-east of England as tens of thousands of ordinary men & women marched in fury to London torching houses slaughtering their social superiors & terrifying the life out of those who got in their way. The burning down of Savoy Palace home to the most powerful magnate in the realm marked one of the Revolts most violent episodes. The Peasants Revolt has remained an underexplored period of history. In revisiting the bloody events of 1381 Dan Jones has brought back to glorious life the squalor drama & complex hierarchies of a society that until now seemed almost too distant to imagine. His examination of village life & the failings of government from the perspective of the Revolts key players is both intellectually stimulating & compulsively readable. Vivid atmospheric & beautifully written this is historical writing of the highest quality.