The Revolt of the Peasant

For richard, the peasant's revolt was a really critical and important event in his kingship. I think at that moment when he went and stood in front of the rebels at smithfield, i think it was the moment he realized his own kingship. He had been living under the a shadow of his father, the black prince,. His grandfather, edward h was also very warlike. But what he did have from a very early age, was this sense of superiority and this sense of divine right. And so when he could see that he was able to exercise that without the levelling presence of his uncle john, of gam, without any of his counsellors who were