Fourteenth-century peasant rebellions marked a deeper social crisis than feudal wars

Evidence

This general economic decline in Europe of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was marked in a final and visible way by social disorders much more profound than the territorial wars. Such wars, after all had been in character with feudal society. The appearance of peasant movements was not: In the boom condition of the thirteenth century there had been in rural areas a degree of over-population which made many peasants-day labourers, poor serfs-very vulnerable. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 164

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in the rise of class-based revolt; resonates with Things Fall Apart’s depiction of communal upheaval against new orders.