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Accidents and violent death in early modern London, 1650-1750[electronic resource] /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
杜威分類號:	304.640942109032
書名/作者:	Accidents and violent death in early modern London, 1650-1750/ Craig Spence.
其他題名:	Accidents & Violent Death in Early Modern London
作者:	Spence, Craig.
出版者:	Suffolk : : Boydell & Brewer,, 2016.
面頁冊數:	xii, 273 p. : : ill., digital ;; 24 cm.
標題:	Accidents - History. - England
標題:	Violent deaths - History. - England
標題:	London (England) - Social conditions - 21st century.
ISBN:	9781782049005
ISBN:	9781783271351
摘要、提要註:	Between the mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries more than 15,000 Londoners suffered sudden violent deaths. While this figure includes around 3,000 who were murdered or committed suicide, the vast majority of fatalities resulted from accidents. In the early modern period, accidental and 'disorderly' deaths - from drowning, falls, stabbing, shooting, fires, explosions, suffocation, animals and vehicles, among other causes - were a regular feature of urban life and left a significant mark in the archival records of the period. This book provides the first substantive critical study of the early modern accident, revealing and chronicling the lives - and deaths - of hundreds of otherwise unknown Londoners. Drawing on the weekly London Bills of Mortality, parish burial registers, newspapers and other related documents, it examines accidents and other forms of violent death in the city with a view to understanding who among its residents encountered such events, how the bureaucracy recorded and elaborated their circumstances and why they did so, and what practical responses might follow. Through a systematic review of the character of accidents, medical and social interventions, and changing attitudes toward the regulation of hazards across the metropolis, it establishes the historical significance of the accident and shows how, as the eighteenth century progressed, providential explanations gave way to a more rational viewpoint that saw certain accident events as threats to be managed rather than misfortunes to be explained. Additionally, the book explores how knowledge of such incidents was transformed to become a recurring cultural trope in oral, textual and visual narratives of metropolitan life, thereby opening a window to the way in which sudden death and violent injury was understood by early modern mentalities. CRAIG SPENCE is Senior Lecturer in History at Bishop Grosseteste University.
電子資源:	https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781782049005/type/BOOK

Accidents and violent death in early modern London, 1650-1750[electronic resource] /
Spence, Craig.

Accidents and violent death in early modern London, 1650-1750[electronic resource] /Accidents & Violent Death in Early Modern LondonCraig Spence. - Suffolk :Boydell & Brewer,2016. - xii, 273 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history,v.251476-9107 ;. - Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history ;v. 14..

Between the mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries more than 15,000 Londoners suffered sudden violent deaths. While this figure includes around 3,000 who were murdered or committed suicide, the vast majority of fatalities resulted from accidents. In the early modern period, accidental and 'disorderly' deaths - from drowning, falls, stabbing, shooting, fires, explosions, suffocation, animals and vehicles, among other causes - were a regular feature of urban life and left a significant mark in the archival records of the period. This book provides the first substantive critical study of the early modern accident, revealing and chronicling the lives - and deaths - of hundreds of otherwise unknown Londoners. Drawing on the weekly London Bills of Mortality, parish burial registers, newspapers and other related documents, it examines accidents and other forms of violent death in the city with a view to understanding who among its residents encountered such events, how the bureaucracy recorded and elaborated their circumstances and why they did so, and what practical responses might follow. Through a systematic review of the character of accidents, medical and social interventions, and changing attitudes toward the regulation of hazards across the metropolis, it establishes the historical significance of the accident and shows how, as the eighteenth century progressed, providential explanations gave way to a more rational viewpoint that saw certain accident events as threats to be managed rather than misfortunes to be explained. Additionally, the book explores how knowledge of such incidents was transformed to become a recurring cultural trope in oral, textual and visual narratives of metropolitan life, thereby opening a window to the way in which sudden death and violent injury was understood by early modern mentalities. CRAIG SPENCE is Senior Lecturer in History at Bishop Grosseteste University.

ISBN: 9781782049005Subjects--Topical Terms:

711496
Accidents
--History.--EnglandSubjects--Geographical Terms:

340833
London (England)
--Social conditions--21st century.

LC Class. No.: DA681 / .S64 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 304.640942109032

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