The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England (Clarendon Paperbacks)
The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England (Clarendon Paperbacks)
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- Author
- Slack Paul
- Publishers
- Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991 Reprinted with Corrections
- Keyword
- Shakespeare
- Binding description
- S
- Dust jacket
- False
- State of preservation
- Very Good
- Binding
- Softcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
Description
8vo, trade paperback, 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.