
The plague outbreak of 1636 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne was one of the most devastating in English history. This hugely moving study looks in detail at its impact on the city through the eyes of a man who stayed as others fled: the scrivener Ralph Tailor.As a scrivener Tailor was responsible for many of the wills and inventories of his fellow citizens. By listening to and writing down the final wishes ...
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press (December 6, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300174470
ISBN-13: 978-0300174472
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.2 x 9.8 inches
Amazon Rank: 1702876
Format: PDF ePub Text djvu ebook
- Keith Wrightson epub
- Keith Wrightson books
- 0300174470 pdf
- Biographies and Memoirs pdf books
- 978-0300174472 pdf
I received this book as a gift and I loved it. The book is filled with statistics, which I loved. They're presented in a way that makes them really interesting and relevant to the narrative and not at all boring or dry. I have to say that I also f...
g, the young scrivener often became the principal provider of comfort in people’s last hours. Drawing on the rich records left by Tailor during the course of his work along with many other sources, Keith Wrightson vividly reconstructs life in the early modern city during a time of crisis and envisions what such a calamitous decimation of the population must have meant for personal, familial, and social relations.