Bond Men Made Free: Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381
Language: English
Pages: 240
ISBN: 067017808X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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 genral 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 is still a leading source for students of medieval English peasantry.
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Bond Men Made Free: Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381
Permitted on the commons, especially when common lands were reduced as the expansion of population caused an increase of the land under the plough. There were many variations of open-field agriculture. Not all were characterized by strict rotational schemes, where year by year spring-sown crops followed those sown in winter and the springsown area was fallowed. Nor were peasants’ holdings always distributed evenly over the main divisions of the arable, as in the case of the regular rotational.
Were then called) were causing growing concern, as they seemed to be heading for economic disaster, and were the scenes of widespread unrest. In one country in particular, Vietnam, where the US government believed it was fighting a war against international communism, peasant revolt represented an important element in the conflict. Historians and social scientists studied peasants and other disadvantaged groups with greater intensity than before.8 The mood of public life went through a remarkable.
Mass of local notables and the few really powerful families was very sharp indeed. This was the case in the sixth century when the barbarian successor states were dominated by a few great families, a fusion of the old Roman senatorial aristocracy with the noble clans closely related to the ruling Merovingian and other Germanic tribal dynasties. It was the case with the Reichsaristokratie of the Carolingian Empire in the eighth and ninth centuries, a small group of families with property and.
Year 800, a Frankish capitulary, probably directed to the bailiffs of the royal estates, refers to fugitives from the manors who fraudulently claimed to be free.13 We have already seen that in the Limonta case there were 10 A.Duchesne, ed., Gesta Normannorum Ducum, 1619, Bk V, chap. 2. Hugh Andresen, ed., 1879; partly reprinted as an appendix in L.Delisle, Etudes sur la condition de la classe agricole en Normandie au moyen-âge. 1851. 11 72 BOND MEN MADE FREE hints that at some stage in the.
Evident, and indeed the two are at points difficult to distinguish, since some of the supposedly urban communes were as much agricultural communities as trading or industrial ones. The development of the rural commune in Italy well illustrates that, though in general the movement is to be understood ultimately as the response of the peasant population to the development of the market, the way in which each situation developed was determined by a complex of other historical conditions. No more.