ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |112 pages
General Problems of Medieval Peasant Societies
chapter |38 pages
The Nature of Medieval Peasant Economy
chapter |33 pages
Early Movements and their Problems
chapter |39 pages
Mass Movements of the Later Middle Ages
part |102 pages
The English Rising of 1381
