1st Edition

King Death The Black Death And Its Aftermath In Late-Medieval England

By Colin Platt Copyright 1997
    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    262 Pages
    by Routledge

    This illustrated survey examines what it was actually like to live with plague and the threat of plague in late-medieval and early modern England.; Colin Platt's books include "The English Medieval Town", "Medieval England: A Social History and Archaeology from the Conquest to 1600" and "The Architecture of Medieval Britain: A Social History" which won the Wolfson Prize for 1990. This book is intended for undergraduate/6th form courses on medieval England, option courses on demography, medicine, family and social focus. The "black death" and population decline is central to A-level syllabuses on this period.

    Mortalities - Mickey Mouse numbers; urban and rural economies; social relations; religious belief; architecture.

    Biography

    Platt, Colin