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

by Colin Platt

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781857283143
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/29/1996
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Platt, Colin

Table of Contents

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