Books by Colin Platt
“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
Interviews where books by Colin Platt were recommended
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Medieval England: A Social History and Archaeology from the Conquest to 1600 AD
by Colin Platt -
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Living and Dying in England 1100-1540: The Monastic Experience
by Barbara Harvey -
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The Great Household in Late Medieval England
by C. M. Woolgar -
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Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England c.1200–1520
by Christopher Dyer -
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Medicine & Society in Later Medieval England
by Carole Rawcliffe
The best books on Daily Life in Medieval England, recommended by Ian Mortimer
The best books on Daily Life in Medieval England, recommended by Ian Mortimer
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” wrote L.P. Hartley. The question is: in what ways? Historian Ian Mortimer talks us through five influential books that shed light on daily life in medieval England—from monastic communities and great households to the gruelling lives of the peasantry.
