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Ralph Tailor's Summer: A Scrivener, His City and the Plague Hardcover – 15 September 2011

by Keith Wrightson (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars 15
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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 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.

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    224 pages
  2. Language
    English
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    *Yale University Press
  4. Publication date
    15 September 2011
  5. Dimensions
    16.51 x 3.18 x 24.77 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0300174470
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0300174472
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Shortlisted in the non-fiction category for the 2012 Portico Prize for Literature, as given by the Portico Library and Gallery.
-- Portico Prize for Literature ― The Portico Library and Gallery Published On: 2012-09-20

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Keith Wrightson is the Townsend Professor of History at Yale University and the author of Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain. He lives in Guilford, CT.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ *Yale University Press; 1st edition (15 September 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300174470
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300174472
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.51 x 3.18 x 24.77 cm
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This book gives a picture of Tyneside during one of the summers when the plague visited by looking at the work of a person who wrote on behalf of the many who could not.
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