Editing Peasants' Revolt (section)

== Terminology ==
The term "Peasants' Revolt" does not occur in medieval sources: contemporary chronicles did not give the events a specific title, and the term "peasant" did not appear in the English language until the 15th century.<ref name="Strohm2008P201" />  In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it was generally known as "the Insurrection of Wat Tyler".<ref>{{harvnb|Prescott|2017|p=79}}</ref> Though he commented that "which eighteenth- or nineteenth-century historian first used the doubly discredited phrase 'Peasants' Revolt' I have been unable to determine", Paul Strohm's first identified usage of the term was in [[John Richard Green]]'s ''Short History of the English People'' in 1874.<ref name="Strohm2008P201" /> The name has been critiqued by modern historians such as Strohm and [[Miri Rubin]], both on the grounds that many in the movements were not peasants, and that the events more closely resemble a prolonged protest or rising rather than a revolt or rebellion.<ref>{{harvnb|Rubin|2006|p=121}}; {{harvnb|Strohm|2008|p=202}}; {{harvnb|Cohn|2013|p=3}}</ref> Alternative terms include "the 1381 Rising"<ref name="Strohm2008P201" /> and "the English
Rising of 1381".<ref>{{harvnb|Prescott|2017|p=78}}</ref>