Nicola Coldstream – författare

Originally published in 1981, The Later Middle Ages bridges the gap between modern and medieval language and literature, by introducing the social and intellectual milieu in which writers like Chaucer, Malory and Margery Kempe lived. It provides a unified and coherent account of the culture of late medieval England, and of the problems involved in viewing it, in relation to English literature. The book covers the history of ideas and education, art and architecture, and changes in the social, economic and political structure.

Originally published in 1981, The Later Middle Ages bridges the gap between modern and medieval language and literature, by introducing the social and intellectual milieu in which writers like Chaucer, Malory and Margery Kempe lived. It provides a unified and coherent account of the culture of late medieval England, and of the problems involved in viewing it, in relation to English literature. The book covers the history of ideas and education, art and architecture, and changes in the social, economic and political structure.

This is Volume IV the conference transactions for 1978 on the Medieval art and architecture of the gothic cathedral church at Wells and Glastonbury looking at building activity during its start in the 1180s and during the late 13th and 14th century, as well as features such as the decorated medieval tiles; carpentry and ironwork; excavations around 1552 and the influence of the 1950s and 1960s.