Class Conflict and the Crisis of Feudalism: Essays in Medieval Social HistoryThe conflict between landlords and peasants over the appropriation of the surplus product of the peasant holding was a prime mover in the evolution of medieval society. In this collection of essays Rodney Hilton looks at the economic context within which these conflicts took place. He seeks to explain the considerable variations in the size, composition and management of landed estates and investigates the nature of medieval urbanisation, a consequence of the development of both local commodity production and long distance trade in luxury goods. By setting the broader economic context – the nature of the peasant and landlord economies and the commercialisation of peasant production – Hilton's essays enable a thorough understanding of the relationship between landlords and peasants in medieval society. |
Contents
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A Hypothesis about their Late Medieval Development | 36 |
4 Ministers Accounts of the Warwickshire Estates of the Duke of Clarence | 48 |
5 The Leger Book of Stoneleigh Abbey | 63 |
6 A Rare Evesham Abbey Estate Document | 101 |
7 A ThirteenthCentury Poem on Disputed Villein Services | 108 |
Any Lessons? | 114 |
14 The Small Town and Urbanisation Evesham in the Middle Ages | 187 |
15 Lords Burgesses and Hucksters | 194 |
16 Women Traders in Medieval England | 205 |
17 Social Concepts in the English Rising of 1381 | 216 |
18 Feudalism or Feodalité and Seigneurie in France and England | 227 |
19 Was there a General Crisis of Feudalism? | 239 |
20 Ideology and Social Order in Late Medieval England | 246 |
21 Some Social and Economic Evidence in Late Medieval English Tax Returns | 253 |
9 Peasant Movements in England before 1381 | 122 |
10 Reasons for Inequality among Medieval Peasants | 139 |
11 Popular Movements in England at the End of the Fourteenth Century | 152 |
12 Some Problems of Urban Real Property in the Middle Ages | 165 |
13 Towns in English Feudal Society | 175 |
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