Medieval England A Social History 1250-1550 [Paperback]

All too often the social history of the Middle Ages has been explored as an adjunct to high politics. This new study focuses on the medieval era's often overlooked ordinary men and women, for whom the politics of the manor, the vill, or the borough were often far more real and pressing. The book explores the various structures of society- household, family, parish or manor- and considers the ways in which ages, gender, maritial status shaped everday life.

All too often the social history of the Middle Ages has been explored as an adjunct to high politics. This new study focuses on the medieval era's often overlooked ordinary men and women, for whom the politics of the manor, the vill, or the borough were often far more real and pressing. The book explores the various structures of society- household, family, parish or manor- and considers the ways in which ages, gender, maritial status shaped everday life.

P.J.P. Goldberg is Reader in History at the University of York, UK

Over the past twenty years, Jeremy Goldberg has significantly altered our understanding of the social history of later medieval England. His work has been consistently characterized by its subtlety and intelligence, its deep understanding of the limitations and possibilities of the surviving sources, and its unwavering attention to the centrality of gender to late-medieval society. With this new textbook, Goldberg places his ideas into the larger patterns of English social history in the centuries before and after the plague. Speculum