John Ball (priest) - Wikipedia John Ball (c 1338 [1] – 15 July 1381) was an English priest who took a prominent part in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 [2] Although he is often associated with John Wycliffe and the Lollard movement, Ball was actively preaching "articles contrary to the faith of the church" at least a decade before Wycliffe started attracting attention [3]
John Ball | Victorian Era, Clergyman, Reformer | Britannica John Ball was one of the leaders of the Peasants’ Revolt in England A sometime priest at York and at Colchester, Ball was excommunicated about 1366 for inflammatory sermons advocating a classless society, but he continued to preach in open marketplaces and elsewhere
John Ball - English Peoples History Month John Ball was excommunicated in 1376 for his advocacy of "ecclesiastical poverty and social equality" for priests in direct opposition to the church’s ideas and he was imprisoned at Maidstone by John of Gaunt
John Ball in English History – English Radical Tradition Arguably the most influential interpretation came from William Morris in A Dream of John Ball (1886–1887) Morris’ reading developed Marxist readings of history and saw Ball’s place in a tradition of victories and defeats involved in the transformation from feudalism to capitalism
Protestant Memories of John Ball and the Peasants’ Revolt . . . After his execution in July 1381, there was a sustained attempt to portray him as a seditious, even demonic, religious extremist whose ideas posed a threat to the nation This portrayal dominated the history of the interpretation of Ball for four hundred years
John Ball in English History - by James Crossley The priest John Ball (c 1338–1381) was a popular figure around the time of the English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 and known for his preaching against the existing secular and ecclesiastical hierarchies
John Ball (1585-1640) | Reformed Theology at A Puritans Mind John Ball (1585-1640), puritan divine, was born at Cassington, Oxfordshire, in October 1585 He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was entered in 1602, and proceeded B A and M A at St Mary”s Hall