Author: Richard WelfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gateshead (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
History of Newcastle and Gateshead ...: Sixteenth & seventeenth centuries. 1887
Author: Richard WelfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gateshead (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
History of Newcastle and Gateshead ...
Author: Richard WelfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gateshead (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Ralph Tailor's Summer
Author: Keith WrightsonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300177593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
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.
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Author: History of Newcastle and Gateshead ...: Sixteenth & seventeenth centuries. 1887
Author: Richard WelfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gateshead (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Provincial England
Author: W. G. HoskinsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349004669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquities
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"A classified catalogue of papers from Archaeologia aeliana, 1813-1913", is included in the Centenary volume, ser. 3, v. 10, p. 334-376.
Society and Puritanism in Pre-revolutionary England
Author: Christopher HillPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786636212
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
How Puritanism made modern Britain In order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War, it is essential to get a grasp on the nature of Puritanism. In this classic work of social history, Christopher Hill reveals Puritanism as a living faith, one responding to social as well as religious needs. It was a set of beliefs that answered the hopes and fears of yeomen and gentlemen, as well as merchants and artisans, in a time of tribulation and extraordinary turbulence. Over this period, Puritanism was interwoven into daily life. Here Hill looks at how rituals and practices such as oath-taking, the Sabbath, bawdy courts, and poor relief offered a way to bring order to social upheaval. He even offers an explanation for the emergence of the seemingly paradoxical figure of the age—the Puritan revolutionary.
Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
"A classified catalogue of papers from Archaeologia aeliana, 1813-1913", is included in the Centenary volume, ser. 3, v. 10, p. 334-376.
Seafaring, Sailors and Trade, 1450-1750
Author: G.V. ScammellPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 104023724X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This second volume of articles by G.V. Scammell offers new insights into the history of British and European shipping in the centuries of Europe's penetration into the oceans of the world, from the 15th to the 18th century. It examines the building, ownership and operation of merchantmen in the context of economic and social developments of the period, combining this with the investigation of the vital, but still comparatively neglected, subjects of the lives, working conditions, beliefs, skills and behaviour of seamen. This is the basis for discussion of the means and methods by which British shipping and merchants established themselves in oceanic trades, including those of other powers, considered in relation to the growth of British maritime and commercial supremacy. The final studies then examine the causes and consequences of European and British seaborne expansion, particularly in Asia.