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Thread #9379   Message #62667
Posted By: Penny
12-Mar-99 - 02:17 PM
Thread Name: English Folk Songs
Subject: RE: English Folk Songs
It may not be history, but it could be fun! And an example of the way people thought. There's a modern work on the rebellion which makes it all part of a (the) Templar plot, with Wat Tyler a prototype Freemason (as if they were the only people who used the word Tyler). Fortunately the writer did not know about the Templar site near one of the stopping point of the Kentish group. The point of this work seemed to be that peasants were incapable of organising anything unless a member, or members of the aristocracy did it for them. Which is pretty well not history, but an exmple of a certain sort of thought current at the end of the 20th century.