Matter of the Greenwood Scholar
R. H. Hilton
- Position
- 'The Origins of Robin Hood', Past and Present 14 (1958). Marxist historian; read the ballads as expressing the grievances of discontented manorial peasantry. Reprinted with the whole debate in Peasants, Knights and Heretics (1976).
- Dates
- 1916-2002
- Field
- Medieval social history
Worldviews
Provenance
- Source method
- Web research
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- HIGH