How People Died in 16th Century London
Not Just the Tudors
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The Role of Parish Clerks in the Production of Ephemera
We're living in a world that's so completely chock full of statistical literacy I suppose, that it's very good to be reminded that this has appeared where this is beginning. Do you feel that this is part of the scientific revolution I suppose? Is this about how people judge the risk and mortality and see it as something that you can approach through numbers and reason as opposed to perhaps a more spiritual or religious way of approaching itor am I creating that false binary there? We don't know quite as much as we might about how they are sold. But the actual distribution is quite widespread.
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