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Ralph Tailor's summer : a scrivener, his city, and the plague /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue
- Stories of the Plague
- The "destroying Angell" and "the eye of the North"
- Wildfire
- Diligence and care of magistrates
- Sent for to write
- Liveing a scrivener in the same towne
- The dialect of heaven
- Bequests and legacies
- The attentive presence of others
- Houshold stuffe
- Discords, variances, and suites
- Ralf Taylor notarie publicke
- Epilogue.