Historical Background Materials

• Thomas Walsingham, Chronicle: The Good Parliament of 1376. A more extensive description is given in the Anonimalle Chronicle's account with which it is useful to compare Walsingham's
• Jean Froissart, Chroniques (the fullest on-line text available, in translation)
  • The Beginning of the English Peasant Revolt
  • The Death of Sir Robert Salle in the Peasant Revolt
  • King Richard punishes the rebels in Kent
• The Anonimalle Chronicle Account of the English Peasant Revolt
• The Manner and Form of the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of England, 1385-1460. (There is a translation, but don't be a wimp: at least look at the Middle English.)
• The Ordinance of Labourers, 1349 (translation)
• The Statute of Labourers, 1351 (translation)
• The Questioning of John Rykener, A Male Cross-Dressing Prostitute (1385)