HILTON H. RODNEY

Η ΜΕΤΑΒΑΣΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΟΝ ΦΕΟΥΔΑΛΙΣΜΟ ΣΤΟΝ ΚΑΠΙΤΑΛΙΣΜΟ
Το βιβλίο του Ντομπ, όπως ο ίδιος παραδέχεται και όπως και οι κριτικοί του έχουν επαναλάβει, είναι έργο ενός μαρξιστή οικονομολόγου εξοικειωμένου με τις τότε διαθέσιμες δευτερογενείς εργασίες. Ο αντίπαλός του στη διαμάχη αυτή, ο Πωλ Σουήζυ, βρισκόταν σε παρόμοια θέση, τη θέση δηλαδή του μαρξιστή μελετητή του σύγχρονου καπιταλισμού που ασχολήθηκε με θέματα μεσαιωνικής οικονομικής ιστορίας βασισμένος σε δευτερογενείς εργασίες μη μαρξιστών ιστορικών. Το ίδιο ισχύει, αν και σε μικρότερο βαθμό, και για τον Τακακάσι, τον πιο σημαντικό από τους ε...
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(P/B) CLASS CONFLICT AND THE CRISIS OF FEUDALISM
Some of the liveliest and most fruitful debates in recent historical writing have been about the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Rodney Hilton's vast and distinguished body of work on medieval society has been a major reference point in these debates. Throughout his work the dominant theme has been his argument that the "prime mover" in the development of medieval society was the conflict between landlords and peasants over the appropriation of the peasants' surplus product. This is the class conflict which gives the present volum...
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(P/B) ENGLISH AND FRENCH TOWNS IN FEUDAL SOCIETY
This is a comparative study of the role of English and French towns in feudal society in the middle ages. In bringing together much material which dissolves old categories and simplifications in the study of medieval towns, Professor Hilton provides an important new perspective on medieval society and on the nature of feudalism. He argues that medieval towns were not, as is often thought, the harbingers of capitalism, and emphasises the way in which urban social structures fitted into, rather than challenged, feudalism. (From the publisher...
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(P/B) BOND MEN MADE FREE
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 general 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 remains the leading...
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