Accidents and violent death in early modern London, 1650-1750:
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...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 273 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VII
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS X
ABBREVIATIONS XI
INTRODUCTION 1
PART ONE 21
1. HERE FALLING HOUSES THUNDER ON YOUR HEAD : SUDDEN VIOLENT
DEATH AND THE METROPOLIS 23
2. I TOLD MY NEIGHBOURS, WHO SENT FOR THE SEARCHERS :
FROM PERSONAL TRAUMA TO PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE 42
PART TWO 63
3. GOOD SERVANTS, BUT BAD MASTERS : FIRE AND WATER 65
4. MUCH MISCHIEF HAPPENETH TO PERSONS IN THE STREET :
EVERYDAY URBAN ACCIDENTS 95
5. DEATH HATH TEN THOUSAND SEVERAL DOORS : RARE AND
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS 125
6. THRO FREEZING SNOWS, AND RAINS, AND SOAKING SLEET :
A TIME TO DIE 149
PART THREE 165
7. SHE WAS LAME LONG AFTER : MEDICAL AND SOCIAL RESPONSE 167
8. TO THE GREAT HAZARD OF PEOPLES LIVES : BRINGING ORDER
TO CHAOS 190
9. TELLING PRETTY STORIES : CONSTRUCTING ACCIDENT EVENT
NARRATIVES 208
CONTENTS
CONCLUSION 243
BIBLIOGRAPHY 247
INDEX 265
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