Bond Men Made Free : Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381 Paperback / softback
by Rodney Hilton
Part of the Routledge Classics series
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:242 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:01/05/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032641898
