Battle-Scarred
Mortality, Medical Care and Military Welfare in the British Civil Wars
Published on 10. July 2018
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-1-5261-2480-7 (ISBN)
Description
Battle-scarred investigates the human costs of the British Civil Wars. Through a series of varied case studies it examines the wartime experience of disease, burial, surgery and wounds, medicine, hospitals, trauma, military welfare, widowhood, desertion, imprisonment and charity. The percentage population loss in these conflicts was far higher than that of the two World Wars, which renders the Civil Wars arguably the most unsettling experience the British people have ever undergone. The volume explores its themes from new angles, demonstrating how military history can broaden its perspective and reach out to new audiences. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
3 Maps
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
564 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-2480-7 (9781526124807)
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David Appleby | Andrew Hopper
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Mortality, Medical Care and Military Welfare in the British Civil Wars
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Persons
David J. Appleby is Lecturer in Early Modern British History at the University of Nottingham
Andrew Hopper is Professor of English Local History at the University of Leicester -- .
Andrew Hopper is Professor of English Local History at the University of Leicester -- .
Content
Introduction
David J. Appleby and Andrew Hopper
Part 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
Part 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 Arni
6 Gerard's Herball and the treatment of war-wounds and contagion during the English Civil War
Richard Jones
Part 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
Conclusion
David J. Appleby and Andrew Hopper
Index -- .
David J. Appleby and Andrew Hopper
Part 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
Part 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 Arni
6 Gerard's Herball and the treatment of war-wounds and contagion during the English Civil War
Richard Jones
Part 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
Conclusion
David J. Appleby and Andrew Hopper
Index -- .