Speaking of medieval history, it's fun how the popular accounts are all "the peasantry disliked nobles, but typically loved the King and attributed any harmful decisions to bad advisors", and then the rare examples of surviving testimony from actual peasants are like "I hope the King literally explodes".
Popular histories: Medieval peasants understood themselves as inhabiting a cosmic order in which the King was their divinely appointed superior.
Actual medieval peasant: God, please set the King and everyone who looks like him on fire, Amen.
Out of curiosity do you recall offhand any of the latter sources? I want to read medieval peasants hating on their rulers :)
This Tumblr thread has a fun anecdote about Guillaume le Jupponnier, and links to an blog post with some more. There is also a promising source in the form of Popular protest in late-medieval Europe. Italy, France and Flanders by Samuel Cohn.
I must say that it may be more accurate to say that the medieval peasantry is not a monolith. They can hold every possible opinion. But yeah, hating the king is a time honored pastime.
