Social Relations and Ideas: Essays in Honour of R. H. Hilton

by Edited by T. H. Aston , P. R. Coss , Christopher Dyer , Joan Thirsk

• ISBN13: 9780521108751
• ISBN10: 0521108756
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-22
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume of essays in honour of Professor R. H. Hilton is presented by some of his numerous friends and pupils. It attempts to reflect his wide-ranging interests while highlighting certain themes and preserving some distinct degree of unity. The essays illustrate his abiding concern with the social structure, the rural economy and the mentalitè of the Middle Ages. They also indicate that his interests have have always been pursued with the use of the widest possible range of sources so that archaeological and literary evidence are employed, as in his own work, alongside the sources more usually familiar to social historians. This book will be of permanent interest to all historians and particularly those specialising in social and economic history.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The origins of the manor in England with a postscript

The extent and profitability of Demesne agriculture in England in the later eleventh century

Feudalism and its decline: a semantic exercise

The matron and the mis-married woman: perceptions of marriage in northern France circa 1100

Literature and social terminology: the Vavasour in England

The struggles between the Abbots of Halesowen and their tenants in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

Poverty in Piers Plowman

English diet in the later Middle Ages

Economic change in later medieval England: an archaeological review

Serfdom in later medieval and early modern Germany

Time, space and use in Early Russia

Plough and pen: agricultural writers in the seventeenth century

Bibliography of R. H. Hilton's works to January 1982

Index

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