Download or read book The Great Plague written by A. Lloyd Moote and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-09-22 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrait of the Great Plague of London. In the winter of 1664-65, a bitter cold descended on London in the days before Christmas. Above the city, an unusually bright comet traced an arc in the sky, exciting much comment and portending "horrible windes and tempests." And in the remote, squalid precinct of St. Giles-in-the-Fields outside the city wall, Goodwoman Phillips was pronounced dead of the plague. Her house was locked up and the phrase "Lord Have Mercy On Us" was painted on the door in red. By the following Christmas, the pathogen that had felled Goodwoman Phillips would go on to kill nearly 100,000 people living in and around London—almost a third of those who did not flee. This epidemic had a devastating effect on the city's economy and social fabric, as well as on those who lived through it. Yet somehow the city continued to function and the activities of daily life went on. In The Great Plague, historian A. Lloyd Moote and microbiologist Dorothy C. Moote provide an engrossing and deeply informed account of this cataclysmic plague year. At once sweeping and intimate, their narrative takes readers from the palaces of the city's wealthiest citizens to the slums that housed the vast majority of London's inhabitants to the surrounding countryside with those who fled. The Mootes reveal that, even at the height of the plague, the city did not descend into chaos. Doctors, apothecaries, surgeons, and clergy remained in the city to care for the sick; parish and city officials confronted the crisis with all the legal tools at their disposal; and commerce continued even as businesses shut down. To portray life and death in and around London, the authors focus on the experiences of nine individuals—among them an apothecary serving a poor suburb, the rector of the city's wealthiest parish, a successful silk merchant who was also a city alderman, a country gentleman, and famous diarist Samuel Pepys. Through letters and diaries, the Mootes offer fresh interpretations of key issues in the history of the Great Plague: how different communities understood and experienced the disease; how medical, religious, and government bodies reacted; how well the social order held together; the economic and moral dilemmas people faced when debating whether to flee the city; and the nature of the material, social, and spiritual resources sustaining those who remained. Underscoring the human dimensions of the epidemic, Lloyd and Dorothy Moote dramatically recast the history of the Great Plague and offer a masterful portrait of a city and its inhabitants besieged by—and defiantly resisting—unimaginable horror.
Download or read book History of the Plague in London written by Daniel Defoe and published by LA CASE Books. This book was released on 1800 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of the Plague in London is a historical novel offering an account of the dismal events caused by the Great Plague, which mercilessly struck the city of London in 1665. First published in 1722, the novel illustrates the social disorder triggered by the outbreak, while focusing on human suffering and the mere devastation occupying London at the time. Defoe opens his book with the introduction of his fictional character H.F., a middle-class man who decides to wait out the destruction of the plague instead of fleeing to safety, and is presented only by his initials throughout the novel. Consequently, the narrator records many distressing stories as experienced by London residents, including craze affected people wandering the streets aimlessly, locals trying to escape the disease infected city, and healthy families forced to confine themselves behind closed doors. Apart from these second-hand accounts, the narrator also provides a thorough explanation on how quarantine was managed and kept under control. In addition, he seeks to debunk all squalid rumors which have produced a false interpretation of the bubonic plague. However, not everything is bleak in the account, as the novel offers some affirmative evidence that humanity is still capable of charity, kindness and mercy even in the midst of chaos and confusion. Although regarded as a work of fiction, the author engrosses with his insertion of statistics, government reports and charts which further validate the novel as a precise portrayal the Great Plague.
Download or read book The Guildhall Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1964-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliotheca Somersetensis County books Bath excepted L Z General index written by Emanuel Green and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A History of Epidemics in Britain From A D 664 to the extinction of plague written by Charles Creighton and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Epidemics in Britain written by Charles Creighton and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Epidemics in Britain written by Charles Creighton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the history of epidemics in Britain from the first British epidemic to the end of the Great Plague.
Download or read book A History of Epidemics in Britain Vol 1 2 written by Charles Creighton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 1278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Creighton's groundbreaking work, 'A History of Epidemics in Britain (Vol. 1&2)', serves as a comprehensive and meticulously researched account of the various epidemics that have plagued Britain throughout history. This two-volume set delves into the social, political, and medical implications of these epidemics, providing a vivid picture of the impact they had on the population. Creighton's writing style is both scholarly and engaging, making this book accessible to a wide audience interested in the history of medicine and public health. By placing each epidemic within its historical context, Creighton offers valuable insights into the evolution of public health practices in Britain. His thorough research and detailed analysis make this book an invaluable resource for scholars and students alike. Charles Creighton's expertise in the field of medical history, combined with his passion for uncovering the untold stories of epidemics, shines through in 'A History of Epidemics in Britain'. This book is highly recommended for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the impact of infectious diseases on society.
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Spencer Collection of Early Children s Books and Chapbooks written by Harris Public Library (Preston, Lancashire, England) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Due Preparations for the Plague as Well for Soul as Body written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cattle Plague written by Clive Spinage and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cattle Plague: A History is divided into five sections, dealing with the nature of the virus, followed by a chronological history of its occurrence in Europe from the Roman Empire to the final 20th century outbreaks; then administrative control measures through legislation, the principal players from the 18th century, followed by an analysis of some effects, political, economic and social. Then follows attempts at cure from earliest times encompassing superstition and witchcraft, largely Roman methods persisting until the 19th century; the search for a cure through inoculation and the final breakthrough in Africa at the end of the 19th century. The last section covers the disease in Asia and Africa. Appendices cover regulations now in force to control the disease as well as historical instructions, decrees and statutes dating from 1745-1878.
Download or read book The Scarlet Plague written by Jack London and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old man walks along deserted railway tracks, long since unused and overgrown; beside him a young, feral boy helps him along. It has been 60 years since the great Red Death wiped out mankind, and the handful of survivors from all walks of life have established their own civilization and their own hierarchy in a savage world. Art, science, and all learning has been lost, and the young descendants of the healthy know nothing of the world that was—nothing but myths and make-believe. The old man is the only one who can convey the wonders of that bygone age, and the horrors of the plague that brought about its end. What future lies in store for the remnants of mankind can only be surmised—their ignorance, barbarity, and ruthlessness the only hopes they have. This cataclysmic tale remains a terrifying prophecy of the perils of globalization, which are all too pertinent today.
Download or read book The Printed Image in Early Modern London written by Joseph Monteyne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting an inventive body of research that explores the connections between urban movements, space, and visual representation, this study offers the first sustained analysis of the vital interrelationship between printed images and urban life in early modern London. The study differs from all other books on early modern British print culture in that it seeks out printed forms that were active in shaping and negotiating the urban milieu-prints that troubled categories of high and low culture, images that emerged when the political became infused with the creative, as well as prints that bear traces of the roles they performed and the ways they were used in the city. It is distinguished by its close and sustained readings of individual prints, from the likes of such artists as Wenceslaus Hollar, Francis Barlow, and William Faithorne; and this visual analysis is complemented with a thorough examination of the dynamics of print production as a commercial exchange that takes place within a wider set of exchanges (of goods, people, ideas and money) across the city and the nation. This study challenges scholars to re-imagine the function of popular prints as a highly responsive form of cultural production, capable not only of 'recording' events, spaces and social actions, but profoundly shaping the way these entities are conceived in the moment and also recast within cultural memory. It offers historians of print culture and British art a sophisticated and innovative model of how to mobilize rigorous archival research in the service of a thoroughly historicized and theorized analysis of visual representation and its relationship to space and social identity.
Download or read book The Bibliographer s Manual of English Literature written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
