"Over the past twenty years, Jeremy Goldberg has significantly altered our understanding of the social history of later medieval Englandhis 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 societyWith this new textbook Goldberg places his ideas into the larger patterns of English social history in the centuries before and after the plague."--Speculum