Colin Platt

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Colin Peter Sherard Platt (born November 11, 1934 in Guangdong ; † July 23, 2015 ) was a British medieval historian.

Life

Colin Platt was born in Guangdong in 1934 to Shell employee Jimmy Platt and his wife Hope, and had a twin brother, Christopher . The two attended Collyer's Grammar School in Horsham . After their national service , they studied history at Balliol College of Oxford University and went there to an end.

In 1960 Colin Platt took up a position as research assistant at Leeds University . 1969 doctorate he with the dissertation The Monastic Grange in Medieval England for Ph.D. In 1964 he worked at the University's History Department . Here he spent his further academic career. In 1983 he was appointed professor.

His book The Architecture of Medieval Britain: A Social History won the 1991 Wolfson History Prize .

Platt was married twice. From the first, divorced marriage he had two sons and two daughters. In 1996 he married the art historian Claire Donovan, who brought two sons into the marriage.

Publications (selection)

  • Excavations in Medieval Southampton (1975)
  • The English Medieval Town (1976)
  • Medieval England: A Social History and Archeology from the Conquest to 1600 (1978)
  • The Parish Churches of Medieval England (1981)
  • The Architecture of Medieval Britain: A Social History (1990)
  • The Great Rebuildings of Tudor and Stuart England: Revolutions in Architectural Taste (1994)
  • King Death: The Black Death and Its Aftermath in Late Medieval England (1996)
  • Marks of Opulence: The Why, When and Where of Western Art 1000-1914 (2004)
  • A Concise History of Jersey (2009)

literature

  • Claire Donovan (Ed.): A Fresh Approach (2014)

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Platt, Colin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Platt, Colin Peter Sherard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British medieval historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Guangdong
DATE OF DEATH 23rd July 2015