| Description | Another recording can be heard behind some tracks. The speakers in this programme are not identified.
Track 1: Introduction and readings, 1.27 mins
Track 2: Workers being unwilling to serve and preferring instead to beg; unknown song; a worker's renouncing of her job; the real earnings of wage earners between 'the end of the Black Death' (circa 1350) and 1500; the taxation of 1380 and its effects; readings of material relating to unhappiness with the work they are being asked to do, 3.17 mins
Track 3: 'Small-scale village rebellions' in 1380; the King's forbidding of liege people from 'making such assemblies, riot or rumour against the peace'; unknown song; readings from literature relating to oppression of farmers, 2.52 mins
Track 4: Lords being less able to 'demand fulfillment of villeinage obligations' and the sociological changes of the period; craftmen's guilds; unknown song; 3.19 mins
Track 5: 'Serving men in the trade' and how they should be under the 'governance and rule' of the masters of the trade; 'fraternities of workers', parish guilds and craft guilds; 2.53 mins
Track 6: Religion, particularly the 'grafting' of pagan traditions onto Christian rituals and the 'lollard movement' (track ends mid-sentence), 2.36 mins
Total: 16.26 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0346280 |