Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket with minor soil, 240 pages. Explores the medieval peasants movement and the 1381 Wat Tyler uprising and the ensuing actions of the very young King Richard II. Hilton's account 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. No markings.
