The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England / Edition 1

by Paul Slack

Overview

This book is a classic study of a disease which had a profound impact on the history of Tudor and Stuart England. Plague was both a personal affliction and a social calamity, regularly decimating urban populations. Slack vividly describes the stresses which plague imposed on individuals, families, and whole communities, and the ways in which people tried to explain, control, and come to terms with it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198202134
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/31/1991
Series:	Clarendon Paperbacks
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	460
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.04(d)

About the Author

Exeter College, Oxford

Editorial Reviews

"The best book about the history of medicine in England ever written. It is also an outstanding piece of social history."—Journal of Social History

"Paul Slack has written the definitive social history of Tudor and Stuart plague."—Times Higher Education Supplement

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