An Accidental History of Tudor England - From Daily Life to Sudden Death (ebok) av Steven Gunn
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Steven Gunn (forfatter), Tomasz Gromelski (forfatter)

An Accidental History of Tudor England ebok

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'Brilliant, unpredictable and endlessly fascinating' IAN MORTIMER'I love this book' TRACY BORMAN'Gunn and Gromelski cast a brilliant light into a lost world' SUSAN BRIGDENA unique new window onto Tudor life, told through ordinary people's untimely deaths.How did ordinary people live in Tudor England? This unique history unearths the ways they died to find out.Uncovering thousands of coroners' reports, An Accidental History of Tudor England explores the history of everyday life, and everyday dea…

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Undertittel From Daily Life to Sudden Death
Forfattere Steven Gunn (forfatter), Tomasz Gromelski (forfatter)
Forlag John Murray
Utgitt 19 juni 2025
Sjanger Historie, Dokumentar og fakta
Språk English
Format epub
DRM-beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781529333770

'Brilliant, unpredictable and endlessly fascinating' IAN MORTIMER

'I love this book' TRACY BORMAN

'Gunn and Gromelski cast a brilliant light into a lost world' SUSAN BRIGDEN

A unique new window onto Tudor life, told through ordinary people's untimely deaths.

How did ordinary people live in Tudor England? This unique history unearths the ways they died to find out.

Uncovering thousands of coroners' reports, An Accidental History of Tudor England explores the history of everyday life, and everyday death, in a world far from the intrigues of Hampton Court Palace, Shakespeare's plots and the Spanish Armada. Here, farming, building and travel were dangerous. Fruit trees killed more people than guns, and sheep killed about the same number as coalmines. Men stabbed themselves playing football and women drowned in hundreds fetching water. Going to church had its dangers, especially when it came to bell-ringing, archery practice was perilous and haystacks claimed numerous victims. Restless animals roamed the roads which contained some potholes so deep men could drown, and drown they did.

From bear attacks in north Oxford to a bowls-on-ice-incident on the Thames, this book uses a remarkable trove of sources and stories to put common folk back into the big picture of Tudor England, bringing the reality of their world to life as never before.