Richard Wilson is Professor Emeritus of Economic and Social History at UEA. He is chairman of the Norfolk Record Society, and was for many years Director of the Centre of East Anglian Studies at UEA. He has published widely on eighteenth and nineteenth century history, notably on the brewing industry and the building of the English country house. He has edited several volumes of correspondence and diaries, most recently of a Norwich textile merchant whose business ventures took him to many parts of Europe. Carole Rawcliffe is Professor of Medieval History and a former Director of the Centre of East Anglian Studies at UEA, having previously worked in London as co-editor of the medieval volumes of The History of Parliament. She now specialises in medical history, and has produced a number of books and articles on medicine and health in later medieval England. Her books include a history of the Great Hospital, Norwich, one of England's oldest charitable institutions; she has also edited collections of essays on East Anglian history.

Carole Rawcliffe is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and author of Medicine and Society in later Medieval England. Richard Wilson is Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of East Anglia and the author (with Alan Mackley) of Creating Paradise: The Building of the English Country House 1660 - 1880.

• Chapter 1 The Urban Landscape by Brian Ayers Chapter 2 Norwich before 1300 by James Campbell Chapter 3 The Churches by Jonathan Finch Chapter 4 The Religious Houses by Christopher Harper-Bill and Carole Rawcliffe Chapter 5 Glass-Painting by David King Chapter 6 Religious Practice by Norman Tanner Chapter 7 Norwich before the Black Death by Elizabeth Rutledge Chapter 8 Order and Disorder by Philippa Maddern Chapter 9 Trade by Penelope Dunn Chapter 10 The Urban Elite and Central Government, 1400-1520 by Ruth Frost Chapter 11 The Reformation by Muriel McClendon and Ralph Houlbrooke Chapter 12 Kett's Rebellion in Norwich by Andy Wood Chapter 13 Sickness and Health by Carole Rawcliffe