Accidents and Violent Death in Early Modern London - 1650-1750

Between the mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth century more than 15,000 Londoners suffered sudden violent deaths. In the early modern period, accidental and 'disorderly' deaths - from drowning, falls, stabbing, shooting, fires, explosions, suffocation, and animals and vehicles, among others - were a regular feature of urban life.

List of contents

Introduction
'Here Falling Houses Thunder on your Head': Sudden Violent Death and the Metropolis
'I told my Neighbours, who sent for the Searchers': From Personal Trauma to Public Knowledge
'Good Servants, but Bad Masters': Fire and Water
'Much Mischief Happeneth to Persons in the Street': Everyday Urban Accidents
'Death Hath Ten Thousand Several Doors': Rare and Unfortunate Events
'Thro' Freezing Snows, and Rains, and Soaking Sleet': A Time to Die
'She was Lame Long After': Medical and Social Response
'To the Great Hazard of Peoples Lives': Bringing Order to Chaos
'Telling Pretty Stories': Constructing Accident Event Narratives
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the author

Craig Spence

Summary

Between the mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth century more than 15,000 Londoners suffered sudden violent deaths. In the early modern period, accidental and 'disorderly' deaths - from drowning, falls, stabbing, shooting, fires, explosions, suffocation, and animals and vehicles, among others - were a regular feature of urban life.

Product details

• Authors: Craig Spence, Craig (Person) Spence
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9781783271351
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-135-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 581 g
• Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History; Studies in Early Modern Cultur; Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History; Studies in Early Modern Cultur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; 17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.), Europäische Geschichte, London, Greater London, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, 18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.), Soziale und ethische Themen