2nd Edition
Bond Men Made Free Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381
Rodney Hilton's account of the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 remains the classic authoritative text on the 'English Rising'. Hilton views the revolt in the context of a general European pattern of class conflict. He demonstrates that the peasant movements that disturbed the Middle Ages were not mere unrelated outbreaks of violence but had their roots in common economic and political conditions and in a recurring conflict of interest between peasants and landowners.
Now with a new introduction by Christopher Dyer, this survey remains the leading source for students of medieval English peasantry.
Biography
Rodney Hilton was Professor of Medieval Social History at the University of Birmingham and is one of the leading historians of social and economic medieval history.
`Rodney Hilton is now generally recognised as the greatest authority on these topics in the English-speaking world.' - The Guardian
