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Author Wrightson, Keith

Title Ralph Tailor's summer : a scrivener, his city, and the plague / Keith Wrightson
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Tailor, Ralph
SUBJECT Tailor, Ralph
Tailor, Ralph fast
Subject 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
Medicine -- History -- 17th century.
Plague -- history
History, 17th Century
Records
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
Medicine
City and town life
Manners and customs
Material culture
Notaries
Plague -- Social aspects
Scriveners (Law)
Social conditions
SUBJECT Newcastle upon Tyne (England) -- Biography
Newcastle upon Tyne (England) -- Social conditions -- 17th century
Newcastle upon Tyne (England) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century
England https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004739
Subject England -- Newcastle upon Tyne
Budapest
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (England, Grossbritannien)
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300177596
0300177593
1283344742
9781283344746
9786613344748
6613344745