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Book: Spectres of John Ball

Chapter: The Quest for the Historical John Ball

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.42749

Blurb:

This chapter looks at reconstructing Ball’s life prior and up to the 1381 uprising, and some of the earliest perceptions about him. It also provides explanations of how ideas associated with or attributed to Ball (e.g., apocalypticism, biblical interpretation, violence, all things in common) might have been understood.

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