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Not strictly zombies (in the conventional sense) but the first Rec movie (the original Spanish one, not the US remake) does a pretty good job of setting up the start of an outbreak, and why it might get past emergency services etc.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Am I thinking of the Dark Ages?

Probably. England formed from the states you mentioned during the Dark Ages (which is also known as the early medieval period).

Though even when England formed into a united block there was still a long period where it was very much controlled via local lords/castles and so forth. Heck that was a big thing after the Norman invasion - building lots of smaller castles to help enforce their rule over the country.

So within that structure you'd have disagreements, fights, arguments, political wrangling and so forth. So there's still a long period where mobility for the lower classes might be restricted and where local lords were akin to rulers over their own fiefdoms and such.