The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England

`Paul Slack's account of bubonic plague in early modern England is already acquiring seminal status. ... admirable study.' Roy Porter, Book Reviews. `This is a harrowing and compelling book. It is an exceptionally fine piece of social history; a sensitive, mature and deeply humane exploration of a social problem and its consequences for social history of the period.' Keith Wrightson, Times Literary Supplement `I have read this book with pleasure and admiration: pleasure in the rich and interesting detail; admiration for a scholarly work on an important subject of English social history.' Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Times `Paul Slack has written the definitive social history of Tudor and Stuart plague.` Times Higher Education Supplement `The best book about history of medicine in England ever written. It is also an outstanding piece of social history.' Journal of Social History `A classic work of English social history.` Continuity and Change `the appearance in paperback of his book on the impact of the plague is heartily to be welcomed ... The book is a must for anyone with a serious interest in the history of medicine and the Tudor and Stuart period. Rosemary Weinstein, Museum of London - no source as to where the review comes from! RELATED OUP TITLES: Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910 by Richard J. Evans (1987, #55.00); Below the Magic Mountain: A Social History of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Britain by Linda Bryder (1988, #30.00); Murders and Madness: Medicine, Law, and Society in the fin de siecle by Ruth Harris (1989, #30.00)