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Battle-scarred examines mortality, medical care and military welfare during the British Civil Wars. Its focus on the victims of war and their means of survival provides a series of case studies to demonstrate how these visceral conflicts drove developments in medical care and military welfare for servicemen and their families.
List of contents
Introduction
David J. Appleby and Andrew HopperPart I: Mortality1 Battlefields, burials and the English Civil Wars
Ian Atherton2 Controlling disease in a civil-war garrison town: military discipline or civic duty? The surviving evidence for Newark upon Trent, 1642-46
Stuart B. JenningsPart II: Medical care3 A new kind of surgery for a new kind of war: gunshot wounds and their treatment in the British Civil Wars
Stephen M. Rutherford4 'Stout Skippon hath a wound': the medical treatment of Parliament's infantry commander following the battle of Naseby
Ismini Pells5 'Dead hogges, dogges, cats and well flayed carryon horses': royalist hospital provision during the First Civil War
Eric Gruber von Arni6 Gerard's
Herball and the treatment of war-wounds and contagion during the English Civil War
Richard JonesPart III: The hidden human costs7 The third army: wandering soldiers and the negotiation of parliamentary authority, 1642-51
David J. Appleby8 'The deep staines these Wars will leave behind': psychological wounds and curative methods in the English Civil Wars
Erin Peters9 The administration of military welfare in Kent, 1642-79
Hannah Worthen10 'To condole with me on the Commonwealth's loss': the widows and orphans of Parliament's military commanders
Andrew Hopper11 'So necessarie and charitable a worke': welfare, identity and Scottish prisoners of war in England, 1650-55
Chris R. LangleyConclusion
David J. Appleby and Andrew HopperIndex
About the author
David J. Appleby is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of NottinghamAndrew Hopper is Lecturer in History in the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester
Summary
Battle-scarred examines mortality, medical care and military welfare during the British Civil Wars. Its focus on the victims of war and their means of survival provides a series of case studies to demonstrate how these visceral conflicts drove developments in medical care and military welfare for servicemen and their families. -- .
