A Dream of John Ball

By William Morris

Subjects: History, Fiction, novel, Tyler's Insurrection, 1381, Peasant uprisings

Description: A Dream of John Ball (1888) is a novel by English author William Morris about the Great Revolt of 1381, conventionally called "the Peasants' Revolt". It features the rebel priest John Ball, who was accused of being a Lollard. He is famed for his question "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?"