Table of 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