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Ralph Tailor's Summer
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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 w...
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 of the dying, 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.
Details
- Creator
- Keith Wrightson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9780300174472, 9781283344746, 9780300177596, 6613344745, 0300177593, 1283344742, 0978300174472, 9786613344748, 0300174470
- OCLC
- ocn779173279, on1024051331
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Prologue -- CHAPTER ONE. Stories of the Plague -- CHAPTER TWO .The Destroying Angell and the Eye of the North -- CHAPTER THREE. Wildfire -- CHAPTER FOUR. Diligence and Care of Magistrates -- CHAPTER FIVE. Sent For to Write -- CHAPTER SIX . Liveing a Scrivener in the Same Towne -- CHAPTER SEVEN .The Dialect of Heaven -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Bequests and Legacies -- CHAPTER NINE. The Attentive Presence of Others -- CHAPTER TEN. Houshold Stuffe -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Discords, Variances, and Suites ∂ -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Ralf Taylor Notarie Publicke -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Subjects
- Tailor, Ralph.
- Plague -- Social aspects -- England -- Newcastle upon Tyne -- History -- 17th century.
- Scriveners (Law) -- England -- Newcastle upon Tyne -- Biography.
- Notaries -- England -- Newcastle upon Tyne -- Biography.
- City and town life -- England -- Newcastle upon Tyne -- History -- 17th century.
- Material culture -- England -- Newcastle upon Tyne -- History -- 17th century.
- Newcastle upon Tyne (England) -- Biography.
- Newcastle upon Tyne (England) -- Social conditions -- 17th century.
- Newcastle upon Tyne (England) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century.