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King Death

King Death

Colin Platt

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
1996
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Historia
ISBN:
9781857283143
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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.

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