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“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...
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