Part 1: Perspectives 1. Disease and Society 2. Attitudes and Actions Part 2: The Dimensions of the Problem 3. The Chronology of Epidemics 1485–1665 4. The Local Context 5. The Urban Impact 6. Metropolitan Crises 7. Counting the Costs Part 3: The Social Response 8. Public Authority and a Policy for Control 9. Controversy and Compromise 10. Towns Under Stress 11. Police and People 12. The End of the Plague 1665–1722.
Biography
Paul Slack
Original Reviews of The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England:
‘Paul Slack’s book combines demographic, social, intellectual and political history in a remarkably successful attempt at the total history of a subject. Clearly written…the book demonstrates argumentative vigour, as well as mastery of manuscript documents…contemporary printed sources and of the pertinent secondary material.’ Harold J. Cook, The American Historical Review, Volume 92, Issue 5, (1987).
‘Slack…expands our very grasp of the subject at hand…most readers will find their own favoured course in this banquet, but this reviewer found Slack’s insights into the social topography of Elizabethan London particularly satisfying.’ Robert Tittler, Albion, Volume 18, Issue 4 (1986)
