London Londoners And The Great Fire Of 1666

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The Great Fire of 1666 was one of the greatest catastrophes to befall London in its long history. While its impact on London and its built environment has been studied and documented, its impact on Londoners has been overlooked. This book makes full and systematic use of the wealth of manuscript sources that illustrate social, economic and cultural change in seventeenth-century London to examine the impact of the Fire in terms of how individuals and communities reacted and responded to it, and to put the response to the Fire in the context of existing trends in early modern England. The book also explores the broader effects of the Fire in the rest of the country, as well as how the Great Fire continued to be an important polemical tool into the eighteenth century.

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Genre : History
Author : Jacob F. Field
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2017-08-07
File : 200 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781351582759


The Great Fire Of London Of 1666

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Recounts the events leading up to the 1666 fire that destroyed most of London, tracing its course and aftermath, as well as the city's recovery.

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Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Author : Magdalena Alagna
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release : 2003-12-15
File : 56 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0823944859


Early Modern Fire

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Early Modern Fire offers new perspectives on the history of fire in early modern Europe (ca. 1600–1800). Far from the background role that scholarship has traditionally assigned to fire, the essays in this volume demonstrate its centrality to understanding the entangled histories of science, technology, and society in the pre-industrial period. Analysing case studies ranging from alchemy to cooking and from firefighting to fireworks, the contributors show that the history of fire is not only one of change and progress, but also of continuity, characterised by the persistence of traditional know-how, small-scale innovation, and the coexistence of different paradigms. Contributors: Gianenrico Bernasconi, Catherine Denys, Hannah Elmer, Liliane Hilaire-Pérez, Olivier Jandot, Cyril Lacheze, Andrew M.A. Morris, Cornelia Müller, Bérengère Pinaud, Stefano Salvia, Marco Storni, Marie Thébaud-Sorger, and Simon Werrett.

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Genre : Science
Author : Gianenrico Bernasconi
Publisher : BRILL
Release : 2024-11-20
File : 380 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789004521766


Prophecies Of Nostradamus

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Whatever the rationalists might say, this book remains one of the most amazing products of human mind.Be it the first or second world war, or rise and fall of Hitler, or September 11 incident of terrorist attack on twin towers of New York, or any other incident in history... it is all there, long predicted by Nostradamus.It takes a fresh look at the predictions with expert analysis and commentaries. Also, many of the predictions even refer to Indian events and personalities. This book invites you to ponder over various details of these ageless revelations of a profound sage.

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Author : R. K. Murthi
Publisher : Pustak Mahal
Release : 1993
File : 156 Pages
ISBN-13 : 8122304273


The Great Fire Of London

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An account of the five-day fire of 1666, which destroyed most of the old city of London, and its effect on the people and the government. Also describes the problems of rebuilding and restoration in the years that followed as recorded by prominent people of the time.

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Genre : History
Author : David A. Weiss
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Release : 2012
File : 137 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781466951365


Metropolitan Tragedy

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Breaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London, Metropolitan Tragedy demonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in London's urban fabric and the city's judicial procedures. Marissa Greenberg argues that plays by Shakespeare, Milton, Massinger, and others rework classical conventions to represent the city as a locus of suffering and loss while they reflect on actual sources of injustice in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London: structural upheaval, imperial ambition, and political tyranny. Drawing on a rich archive of printed and manuscript sources, including numerous images of England's capital, Greenberg reveals the competing ideas about the metropolis that mediated responses to theatrical tragedy. The first study of early modern tragedy as an urban genre, Metropolitan Tragedy advances our understanding of the intersections between genre and history.

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Genre : Drama
Author : Marissa Greenberg
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Release : 2015-01-01
File : 248 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781442648807


Prometheus Tamed

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Large city fires were a huge threat in premodern Central European every-day life; only quite late, institutional forms of fire insurances emerged as a post-disaster instrument of damage recovery. During the nineteenth century, insurance agencies spread through the World forming a plurality of modernities, safe or unsafe.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Cornel Zwierlein
Publisher : BRILL
Release : 2021-01-11
File : 563 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789004431225


By The Numbers

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"During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English numerical practices underwent a complex transformation with wide-ranging impacts on English society and modes of thought. At the beginning of the early modern period, English men and women believed that God had made humans universally numerate, although numbers were not central to their everyday lives. Over the next two centuries, rising literacy rates and the increasing availability of printed books revolutionized modes of arithmetical education, upended the balance between the multiple symbolic systems used to express popular numeracy, and contributed to a wider transformation in numbers as a technology of knowledge"--

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Genre : Numeracy
Author : Jessica Marie Otis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2024
File : 281 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780197608777


In The Shadow Of St Paul S Cathedral

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The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard--the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium St. Paul's Cathedral stands at the heart of London, an enduring symbol of the city. Less well known is the neighborhood at its base that hummed with life for over a thousand years, becoming a theater for debate and protest, knowledge and gossip. For the first time Margaret Willes tells the full story of the area. She explores the dramatic religious debates at Paul's Cross, the bookshops where Shakespeare came in search of inspiration, and the theater where boy actors performed plays by leading dramatists. After the Great Fire of 1666, the Churchyard became the center of the English literary world, its bookshops nestling among establishments offering luxury goods. This remarkable community came to an abrupt end with the Blitz. First the soaring spire of Old St. Paul's and then Wren's splendid Baroque dome had dominated the area, but now the vibrant secular society that had lived in their shadow was no more.

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Genre : History
Author : Margaret Willes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Release : 2022-01-01
File : 324 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780300249835


Accidents And Violent Death In Early Modern London 1650 1750

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"Between the mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth century 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 unexplained violent deaths or accidents. 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. This book is a critical study of the early modern accident. 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. Additionally, the book explores the way in which these events were transformed to become a recurring cultural trope in oral, textual and visual narratives of metropolitan life and how sudden deaths were understood by early modern mentalities. By the mid-eighteenth century, providential explanations were giving way to a more "mechanically" rational view that saw accident events as threats to be managed rather than misfortunes to be explained."--

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Genre : History
Author : Craig Spence
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Release : 2016
File : 290 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781783271351