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Cade's Rebellion |
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Cade's Rebellion(1450) Uprising against the government of Henry VI of England. Jack Cade, an Irishman of uncertain occupation living in Kent, organized a rebellion among local small property holders angered by high taxes and prices. He took the name John Mortimer, identifying himself with the family of Henry's rival, the duke of York. Cade and his followers defeated a royal army in Kent and entered London, where they executed the lord treasurer. They were soon driven out of the city; Cade's followers dispersed on being offered a pardon, and Cade was mortally wounded in Sussex. His rebellion contributed to the breakdown of royal authority that led to the Wars of the Roses. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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nbsp;of Jack Cade's rebellion and the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 as a way to revisit the anti-literacy past of England's history by foregrounding the elitist control of texts and Cade's attempt to combat literacy and the bourgeois control of history's record. For example, he compares agrarian protest in Jack Cade's rebellion to Shay's Rebellion, the eighteenth-century agrarian protest in western Massachusetts, and, more predictably but no less ironically, Othello to Clarence Thomas. |
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