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Ralph Tailor's Summer: A Scrivener, His City and the Plague

by Keith Wrightson
RM70.35 MYR Now RM51.74 MYR Save 26%
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Plague's societal impact through a scrivener's eyes.

This book invites you into the heart of a city besieged by the plague, offering a poignant glimpse of human resilience and the shifting sands of social order through Ralph Tailor's intimate records. If you're fascinated by the interplay between disease and humanity, or if you appreciate historical accounts brimming with authenticity and emotional depth, this meticulously researched tale by Keith Wrightson will captivate and enlighten you. It's a somber yet engaging journey back to a time where the scribbles of a scrivener were the final testaments of many lives.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Ralph Tailor's Summer: A Scrivener, His City and the Plague

by Keith Wrightson
RM70.35 MYR Now RM51.74 MYR Save 26%
ISBN: 9780300174472
Authors: Keith Wrightson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date of Publication: 2011-12-06
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: History, Personal Development, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Microhistory, Biography, Historical, War, European History
Goodreads rating: 3.43
(rated by 60 readers)

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One man's life in the plague, his record of the calamitous decimation of a city where nearly half the people died, and its sometimes surprising impact on families and communities. The plague outbreak of 1636 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne was one of the most devastating in English history. This study looks 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 records left by Tailor during his work along with other sources, Keith Wrightson 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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Plague's societal impact through a scrivener's eyes.

This book invites you into the heart of a city besieged by the plague, offering a poignant glimpse of human resilience and the shifting sands of social order through Ralph Tailor's intimate records. If you're fascinated by the interplay between disease and humanity, or if you appreciate historical accounts brimming with authenticity and emotional depth, this meticulously researched tale by Keith Wrightson will captivate and enlighten you. It's a somber yet engaging journey back to a time where the scribbles of a scrivener were the final testaments of many lives.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.