How People Died in 16th Century London
Not Just the Tudors
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The Relationship Between Text and Print and Literacy
Bills from 1630s carry information about the price of bread. It feels to me that that might actually cause just as much fear and worry as knowing about plague numbers in a time where inflation is an ever-present threat. Do you think this dynamic is only significant for those who could read? I think in a society in which not everybody is literate, we might tend to underestimate the extent to which information can nevertheless be shared because some people can read and some people can pass it on.
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