The Impact Of Plague In Tudor And Stuart England Paperback

Paul Slack

This 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. Paul 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.

9780198202134

English

Oxford University Press

31 Jan 1991

460

Paul Slack has written the definitive social history of Tudor and Stuart plague. * Times Higher Education Supplement * I have read this book with pleasure and admiration: pleasure in the rich and interesting detail; admiration for a scholarly work on an important subject of English social history. * Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Times * This is a harrowing and compelling book. It is an exceptionally fine piece of social history; a sensitive, mature and deeply humane exploration of a social problem and its consequences for social history of the period. * Keith Wrightson, Times Literary Supplement *