Battle-scarred : mortality, medical care and military welfare in the British civil wars / edited by David J. Appleby and Andrew Hopper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Appleby, David, 1960- editor.

Hopper, Andrew (Andrew James), editor.

Series:

Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain.

Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--Civil War, 1642-1649.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--Civil War, 1642-1649--Medical care.

Great Britain--History--Civil War, 1642-1649--Desertions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 247 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

'Battle-Scarred' examines mortality, medical care and military welfare during the British civil wars. Its focus on the victims of war and their means of survival provides a series of case studies to demonstrate how these visceral conflicts drove developments in medical care and military welfare for servicemen and their families.

Contents:

Pt. I Mortality

1. Battlefields, burials and the English Civil Wars / Ian Atherton

2. Controlling disease in a civil-war garrison town: military discipline or civic duty? The surviving evidence for Newark-upon-Trent, 1642-46 / Stuart B. Jennings

pt. II Medical care

3. A new kind of surgery for a new kind of war: gunshot wounds and their treatment in the British Civil Wars / Stephen M. Rutherford

4. 'Stout Skippon hath a wound': the medical treatment of Parliament's infantry commander following the battle of Naseby / Ismini Pells

5. 'Dead Hogges, Dogges, Cats and well flayed Carryon Horses': royalist hospital provision during the First Civil War / Eric Gruber von Ami

6. Gerard's Herball and the treatment of war-wounds and contagion during the English Civil War / Richard Jones

pt. III The hidden human costs

7. The third army: wandering soldiers and the negotiation of parliamentary authority, 1642-51 / David J. Appleby

8. 'The deep staines these Wars will leave behind': psychological wounds and curative methods in the English Civil Wars / Erin Peters

9. The administration of military welfare in Kent, 1642

79 / Hannah Worthen

10. 'To condole with me on the Commonwealth's loss': the widows and orphans of Parliament's military commanders / Andrew Hopper

11. 'So necessarie and charitable a worke': welfare, identity and Scottish prisoners-of-war in England, 1650

55 / Chris R. Langley.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781526144850

1526144859

9781526124814

1526124815

9781526138675

1526138670

OCLC:

1053740785