Medieval England: A Social History and Archaeology from the Conquest to 1600 AD

“Colin Platt is an archeologist who looks at historical sources…He worked from the material culture outwards. His book showed me there is a way of integrating what I can go and look at for myself and the narrative about how medieval England changed—because medieval England changed so much between the 11th and the 16th centuries. You go from a world which is riven by violence, famine, hostility, hardship, slavery, fighting the Vikings, through to the age of Shakespeare. That’s an enormous transition.” Read more...

The best books on Daily Life in Medieval England

Ian Mortimer, Historian