Rodney Hilton, Marxism and the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4163303 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Epstein (0000-0002-2959-4637), Stephan Epstein (corresponding author), S R Epstein |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 195 |
| Issue | Supplement 2 |
| Pages | 248-269 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Past & Present (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-2746 • E-ISSN: 1477-464X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pastj/gtm034 |
| OpenAlex | W2039211160 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 19 |
A founding member of the Historians’ Group of the Communist Party, of the journal Past and Present, and a major force in a distinctive and distinguished School of History at the University of Birmingham, Rodney Hilton was among the most notable medieval historians of the latter half of the twentieth century. He was also the most influential of a small number of Marxist medievalists in Britain and Continental Europe who practised their craft before the renaissance of Marxist and left-wing history after 1968. Surprisingly, therefore, his work's historiographical and theoretical significance has not attracted much attention.1 Although Hilton was, first and foremost, a ‘historian's historian’, and made his most lasting contributions to the fields of English social, agrarian, and urban history, his engagement with Marxist historical debates cannot be lightly dismissed.2 Hilton's Marxism, a central feature of his self-understanding as a historian, reflects both strengths and weaknesses of British Marxist historiography in its heyday, and his interpretation of a locus classicus of Marxist debate, the transition from feudal to capitalist modes of production, still carries considerable weight among like-minded historians.
Agrarian society · Archaeology · Capitalism · Communism · Feudalism · Historiography · Marxist historiography · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Australian History and Society · Classics · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law
Power and prosperity
Working-class culture
The Great Divergence
The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
The Victoria history of the county of Leicester
Karl Marx's Theory of History
The Brenner Debate
English Agrarian Labor Productivity Rates Before the Black Death
Craft Guilds, Apprenticeship, and Technological Change in Preindustrial Europe
Small Town Society in England Before the Black Death
Population, Money Supply, and the Velocity of Circulation in England, 1300-1700
The English Peasantry in the Later Middle Ages. The Ford Lectures for 1973 and Related Studies
Divisions of Labour
Technical Determinism
Differentiation of the Peasantry Under Feudalism and the Transition to Capitalism
Rodney Hilton (1916-2002)
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |