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Overview
Helen Carr and Matt Lewis dissect 14th-century upheaval, exploring resilience amid plague, revolt, and flawed kingship to reveal how crises shaped modern Britain.
Takeaways
- •Helen Carr examines Edward II, Edward III, and Richard II, highlighting how personal backgrounds, trauma, and power dynamics influenced leadership and destabilized traditional authority structures.
- •Bias and limitation of chronicled sources challenge historians, who must creatively combine chronicles, court records, and overlooked petitions, including women's voices, to reconstruct a fuller history.
- •Landmark events—Peasants’ Revolt, the Black Death, civil wars—engendered deep suffering but also propelled social transformation and agency, reframing tragedy into an age of opportunity.
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- This is a chapter‘s title.The Fragility of Society and the Pendulum of ChangeThe Fragility of Society and the Pendulum of ChangeThe Fragility of Society and the Pendulum of ChangeThe Fragility of Society and the Pendulum of Change
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