Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities Paperback – March 15, 2019

Carole Rawcliffe is a Professor of Medieval History. She does a great job of learning about health in pre-Reformation England.Professor Rawcliffe challenges many of the ideas of the unsanitary life of the medical and cultural world that they had then. The English towns wanted to be clean and healthy and took steps to do so. Her book will give you a different perspective to what we were taught about the conditions and health of the towns.