Bond Men Made Free - Couverture rigide

Hilton, Rodney

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1032641959 ISBN 13 : 9781032641959

Editeur : Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

The Peasants' Revolt of 1381, led by Wat Tyler, was the first popular uprising in British history. Centred around the counties of South East England and rebelling against legislation to fix minimum wages, it was driven by agricultural labourers and the urban working classes but quickly gathered momentum to encompass artisans, villeins and the destitute. Although it lasted only a month before defeat, it was a major turning point in early British history and was heralded by many historians as the emergence of British working-class consciousness and political activism.

Rodney Hilton's superb account of these events remains a classic, widely read and admired since its first publication. Locating the revolt in the context of European class conflict, he argues 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 - one that has endured through the ages.

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Phillipp R. Schofield.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rodney Hilton (1916-2002) was Professor of Medieval Social History at the University of Birmingham, UK, and one of the leading medieval historians of his generation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1032641959
• ISBN 13: 9781032641959
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 262
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