Shaping the Nation: England 1360-1461 (The New Oxford History of England)

xxi, 705 pp. Chronology, bibliography, and index follow text. "The Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the Wars of the Roses...a succession of dramatic social and political upheavals reshaped England in the period 1360-1461. In this luring and penetrating account of this formative period, Gerald Harris draws on the research of the last thirty years t o describe medieval society at its peak."