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Book: Spectres of John Ball

Chapter: Exit Ball: Late Medieval Receptions

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.42750

Blurb:

This chapter looks at the beginning of the long reception of Ball as a heretic and seditious threat in late medieval England. However, alongside this reception was an ignoring of Ball in some prominent accounts of 1381. This chapter provides reasons for this absence—and the grounds for his return.

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