Rodney Hilton, who was professor of social history in the Middle Ages at the University of Birmingham, is today a world intellectual benchmark for the good work of the historian. It was the desire to know the peasant antecedents of the struggles of his own ancestors, Lancashire weavers, that prompted her to investigate him. In addition to numerous articles, he was the author of the following works: The economic development of some Leicester estates in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, The English rising of 1381 (in collaboration with H. Hagan), A medieval society: the West Midlands at the end of the Thirteenth Century, The decline of serfdom in medieval England and The English peasantry in the later Middle Ages. He, too, has compiled the volume Peasants, knights and heretics: studies in medieval English social history, and the most recent version of the debate opened by Dobb and Sweezy on The transition from feudalism to capitalism.