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Disease & Medicine


New & Upcoming Releases



Black Death: A New History of the Bubonic Plagues of London by Stephen Porter
(2022)

Disability and the Tudors: All the King's Fools by Phillipa Vincent-Connolly
(2021)

Disease and Society in Premodern England by John Theilmann
(2022)

Disease and the Environment in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds by Lori Jones
(2022)

Medical Downfall of the Tudors: Sex, Reproduction & Succession by Sylvia Barbara Soberton
(2020)

Death and Disorder: A History of Early Modern England 1485-1690 by Ken MacMillan
(2020)



Disease and Disability in Medieval and Early Modern Art and Literature by Canalis, Fernando, Ciavolella
(2021)

Poison, Medicine, and Disease in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Frederick W Gibbs
(2020)

Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World by Jones, Varlik, Black
(2022)

House of Tudor: A Grisly History by Mickey Mayhew
(2022)

Renaissance Medicine: A Short History of European Medicine in the Sixteenth Century by Vivian Nutton
(2022)

The English Sweating Sickness: The History and Legacy of the Mysterious Disease by Charles River Editors
(2020)



General



Sweating Sickness: In a Nutshell by Claire Ridgway
(2014)

Pustules, Pestilence and Pain: Tudor Treatments and Ailments of Henry VIII by Seamus O'Caellaigh
(2017)

Plague, Flood and Gewgaws: Wisbech and the Fens in Tudor and Stuart Times by Diane Calton Smith
(2019)

Maladies and Medicine: Exploring Health & Healing 1540-1740 by Sara Read & Jennifer Evans
(2017)

The Royal Art of Poison: Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicines and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman
(2019)

Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England by Elaine Leong
(2018)



Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England by Olivia Weisser
(2016)

The Literary Culture of Plague in Early Modern England by Kathleen Miller
(2016)

Disease, Diagnosis, and Cure on the Early Modern Stage by Stephanie Moss & Kaara L. Peterson
(2016)

The life of Thomas Linacre, doctor in medicine, physician to King Henry VIII by John Noble Johnson
(2009)

Blood Will Tell: A Medical Explanation for the Tyranny of Henry VIII by Kyra Cornelius Kramer
(2012)

The Royal Doctors 1485-1714: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts by Elizabeth Lane Furdell
(2001)




Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies) by Mary J. Dobson
(1997)

Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine 1550-1680 by Andrew Wear
(2000)

Health Care and Poor Relief in Protestant Europe 1500-1700 by Cunningham & Grell
(2002)

Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest 1492-1650 by Noble David Cook
(1998)

Melancholy and the Care of the Soul: Religion, Moral Philosophy and Madness in Early Modern England by Jeremy Schmidt
(2016)

Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England by Paul Slack
(1985)



Plague in the Early Modern World: A Documentary History by Dean Phillip Bell
(2019)





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