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Author : Stephen Porter
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445656861
The definitive history of the virulent and fatal plague outbreaks that wiped out half of London's populations from the medieval Black Death of the 1340s to the Great Plagues of the seventeenth century.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : LA CASE Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1800
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The History of the Plague in London is a historical novel offering an account of the dismal events caused by the Great Plague, which mercilessly struck the city of London in 1665. First published in 1722, the novel illustrates the social disorder triggered by the outbreak, while focusing on human suffering and the mere devastation occupying London at the time. Defoe opens his book with the introduction of his fictional character H.F., a middle-class man who decides to wait out the destruction of the plague instead of fleeing to safety, and is presented only by his initials throughout the novel. Consequently, the narrator records many distressing stories as experienced by London residents, including craze affected people wandering the streets aimlessly, locals trying to escape the disease infected city, and healthy families forced to confine themselves behind closed doors. Apart from these second-hand accounts, the narrator also provides a thorough explanation on how quarantine was managed and kept under control. In addition, he seeks to debunk all squalid rumors which have produced a false interpretation of the bubonic plague. However, not everything is bleak in the account, as the novel offers some affirmative evidence that humanity is still capable of charity, kindness and mercy even in the midst of chaos and confusion. Although regarded as a work of fiction, the author engrosses with his insertion of statistics, government reports and charts which further validate the novel as a precise portrayal the Great Plague.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1722
Category : Fires
ISBN : UOM:39015008802483
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B000579777
Author : A. Lloyd Moote,Dorothy C. Moote
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780801892301
An intimate portrait of the Great Plague of London. In the winter of 1664-65, a bitter cold descended on London in the days before Christmas. Above the city, an unusually bright comet traced an arc in the sky, exciting much comment and portending "horrible windes and tempests." And in the remote, squalid precinct of St. Giles-in-the-Fields outside the city wall, Goodwoman Phillips was pronounced dead of the plague. Her house was locked up and the phrase "Lord Have Mercy On Us" was painted on the door in red. By the following Christmas, the pathogen that had felled Goodwoman Phillips would go on to kill nearly 100,000 people living in and around London—almost a third of those who did not flee. This epidemic had a devastating effect on the city's economy and social fabric, as well as on those who lived through it. Yet somehow the city continued to function and the activities of daily life went on. In The Great Plague, historian A. Lloyd Moote and microbiologist Dorothy C. Moote provide an engrossing and deeply informed account of this cataclysmic plague year. At once sweeping and intimate, their narrative takes readers from the palaces of the city's wealthiest citizens to the slums that housed the vast majority of London's inhabitants to the surrounding countryside with those who fled. The Mootes reveal that, even at the height of the plague, the city did not descend into chaos. Doctors, apothecaries, surgeons, and clergy remained in the city to care for the sick; parish and city officials confronted the crisis with all the legal tools at their disposal; and commerce continued even as businesses shut down. To portray life and death in and around London, the authors focus on the experiences of nine individuals—among them an apothecary serving a poor suburb, the rector of the city's wealthiest parish, a successful silk merchant who was also a city alderman, a country gentleman, and famous diarist Samuel Pepys. Through letters and diaries, the Mootes offer fresh interpretations of key issues in the history of the Great Plague: how different communities understood and experienced the disease; how medical, religious, and government bodies reacted; how well the social order held together; the economic and moral dilemmas people faced when debating whether to flee the city; and the nature of the material, social, and spiritual resources sustaining those who remained. Underscoring the human dimensions of the epidemic, Lloyd and Dorothy Moote dramatically recast the history of the Great Plague and offer a masterful portrait of a city and its inhabitants besieged by—and defiantly resisting—unimaginable horror.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : London (England)
ISBN : OCLC:36740514
Author : Даниэль Дефо
Publisher : Litres
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040826353
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Plague
ISBN : 3736413785
Author : Daniel Dofoe
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1492840599
History of The Plague in London
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798642620168
It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbors, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought (some said from Italy, others from the Levant) among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others, from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but all agreed it was come into Holland again.We had no such thing as printed newspapers in those days, to spread rumors and reports of things, and to improve them by the invention of men, as I have lived to see practiced since. But such things as those were gathered from the letters of merchants and others who corresponded abroad, and from them was handed about by word of mouth only; so that things did not spread instantly over the whole nation, as they do now.
Author : Walter George Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015017978514
Thomson, George.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:760699566
Author : Daniel Defoe,Thomas Laurie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Plague
ISBN : OCLC:270107181
Author : Miranda Kaufmann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786071859
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018 A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and the Observer A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian diver to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose. From long-forgotten records emerge the remarkable stories of Africans who lived free in Tudor England… They were present at some of the defining moments of the age. They were christened, married and buried by the Church. They were paid wages like any other Tudors. The untold stories of the Black Tudors, dazzlingly brought to life by Kaufmann, will transform how we see this most intriguing period of history.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798737198473
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