Presenting a new analysis of the population and mortality figures for this era, Disease, Disaster and Death in Mid-Tudor England examines the epidemic of 1556-60 which is the greatest, yet most under-examined disaster in English history since the Black Death.
Looking at how England's population was reduced by about twenty percent by the two worst harvests of the sixteenth century, followed by a pandemic of influenza and typhus, John Moore uses a variety of historical sources, from taxation records, muster rolls and wills, parish registers, chantry certificates and the 1563 diocesan census to re-analyze the death-toll caused by disease.
He examines how:
- the death of Queen Mary, Cardinal Pole and many of the Catholic bishops from influenza led to the accession of Elizabeth I to the throne and the Anglican religious settlement which she sponsored
- the dramatic drop in population reduced the pressure for food on the countryside, allowing rural industries to grow and new agricultural methods to flourish
- Protestantism encouraged a sense of national identity which was increasingly focussed against Catholic Spain, leading to new trading and colonial ventures and eventually to the first British empire.
Including clearly tabulated statistical information, this is an essential book for any student of Tudor Britain.
- ISBN10 0415395488
- ISBN13 9780415395489
- Publish Date 31 December 2050 (first published 14 February 2014)
- Publish Status Withdrawn
- Out of Print 28 June 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 368
- Language English