lack of property and by their difficult material circumstances. They were the main driving force in many of the urban revolts against the patriciate, the domination of the guild oligarchy, and burdensome taxation. Together with the poorest of the peasantry, the plebeians constituted the social ...
Such revolts often assumed the form of religious uprisings and were led by volkhvy (magi), priests who presided over pagan cults. The early feudal Kievan state reached its zenith in the tenth and first half of the 11th centuries. Under Prince Iaroslav the Wise (ruled 1019–54), Kievan ...
William evidently hoped that he had removed all the English leaders who might have led revolts against the Norman government. (76) While he was away, several disturbances broke out. The first revolt took place in Wales was directed by Eric the Wild and the rebels failed in their attempts ...
duringthe revolts against Maximilian in the Low Countries (1483-1492) and thewars between Charles V and Francis I (1521-1530; 1536-1538). It should bestressed, however, that attempts to prohibit ‘foreign military service’ hadbeen made as early as the late fourteenth century. In 1396 Duche...
As they approached the Gur Zhung Valley, Rock was told “You had better not go, for all the Ngoloks are aroused are awaiting you to rob and perhaps murder you.” Rock persevered. Until finally “I shouted for joy as I beheld the majestic peaks of one of the grandest mountain ranges...
and perform many duties (Mamedova,1986). This kind of economic relationship between the peasants and feudal lords explains the fact that Azerbaijan, unlike other Eastern countries, did not have serfdom in the common sense. The peasants were dependent on and subject to cruel exploitation, but they...
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom revolt is a antifeudal counter-aggression farmer movement, is in the Chinese history the scale is biggest, the population are most, a time longest peasant war, is Chinese several millenniums comes the peasant war the high point, it has attacked the Chinese and fore...
There came into her mind now the memory of her home where she had been a child, the big house among the land, the peasants of the village. She was sent to Yorkshire, to nurse an old rector in his rectory by the sea. This was the first shake of the kaleidoscope that brought in ...
In 1926, after the final suppression of the Basmachi Revolt, elections to the soviets were held throughout Tadzhikistan. The revolutionary committees created in 1925 for the struggle against the Basmachi were replaced by representative governmental bodies of the working people. In December 1926, the ...
Red Delmo takes his pay from the Marquis of Scull engaged to pry the horde of peasants from his lordship's estates. Tenants like the Lynches of Lambskill who for three generations have rented land from the nobleman's family, living and dying in the same damp and filthy mud-floored ...