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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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Originally published in 1913, this book presents the Latin text of the 1439 Award of William Alnwick, Bishop of Lincoln from 1436 to 1449. A facing-page English translation is also provided. The text was created at the request of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. Detailed notes are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in William Alnwick and church history.