Colin Platt is Professor of History at the University of Southampton. He is the author

of fifteen books on various aspects of medieval life, including King Death: The Black

Death and its Aftermath in Late-medieval England, and was the founding editor of the

journal World Archaeology. His book The Architecture of Medieval Britain: A Social

History won the Wolfson Literary Award for History 1990.

By drawing equally on the work of historians and archaeologists, Colin Platt puts forward

a view of English medieval society in which there is much that is new and unexpected.

Medieval England brings together a wide range of themes, from castle and palace to

peasant hovel, from the great cathedrals and monasteries to the parish churches and

‘alien’ cells. The book is fully illustrated, the pictures being an integral part of the text.

For this re-issue Professor Platt has written a new preface which updates the work with

a survey of archaeological and historical developments in the last decade.