ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|18 pages

Mortalities

chapter 2|13 pages

Shrunken towns

chapter 3|15 pages

Villages in stasis

chapter 4|14 pages

Impoverished noblemen and rich old ladies

chapter 5|15 pages

Knight, esquire and gentleman

chapter 6|17 pages

Of monks and nuns

chapter 7|23 pages

Like people, like priest

chapter 8|15 pages

Protest and resolution

chapter 9|39 pages

Architecture and the arts

chapter 10|16 pages

Architecture and the arts