Rodney Hilton
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Rodney Howard Hilton, (November 17, 1916 – June 7, 2002), was an English Marxist historian of the late medieval period. He was born in Manchester and studied at Balliol College Oxford University and was a member of the Communist Party Historians Group before commencing a 36-year teaching career at the University of Birmingham.
His works include:
- The economic development of some Leicestershire estates in the 14th & 15th centuries(1947)
- Communism and Liberty (1950)
- The English rising of 1381 (1950) (with H. Fagan)
- A medieval society : the West Midlands at the end of the thirteenth century(1966)
- The decline of serfdom in medieval England(1969)
- Bond Men Made Free: Medieval peasant movements and the English rising of 1381(1973)
- The English Peasantry in the Later Middle Ages (1975)
- Peasants, knights, and heretics : studies in medieval English social history(editor) (1976)
- The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism (1976)
- Class Conflict and the Crisis of Feudalism(1983)
- The change beyond the change : a dream of John Ball (1990)
- English and French towns in feudal society : a comparative study(1992)
- Power and jurisdiction in medieval England (1992)
- Social relations and ideas : essays in honour of R.H. Hilton (edited by T.H. Aston) (1983)
His papers are held at the University of Birmingham Special Collections.
[edit] External Links
- A voice for the exploited Obituary by Brian Manning
- Obituary by Christopher Dyer
