Rodney Hilton – Bond Men Made Free, Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381
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Rodney Hilton – Bond Men Made Free, Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381
Introduced by Christopher Dyer [Routledge 2003] 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. Contents
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Some interesting true stories of class warfare throughout medieval Europe — they just don't do class warfare like they used to! Read it and be inspired!
