Keith Wrightson: 2 books
by Keith Wrightson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
English Society, 1580-1680 paints a fascinating picture of society and rural change in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Keith Wrightson discusses both the enduring characteristics of society as well as the course of social change, and emphasizes the wide variation in experience...
by Keith Wrightson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
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...