The wheelchair of Thomas, third baron Fairfax, the parliamentarian commander-in-chief

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of figures and tables

pp ix-x

Notes on contributors

pp xi-xiii

Preface and acknowledgements

pp xiv-xiv

Abbreviations

pp xv-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-20

Part I: - Mortality

pp 21-22

1 - Battlefields, burials and the English Civil Wars

pp 23-39

2 - Controlling disease in a civil-war garrison town: military discipline or civic duty?: The surviving evidence for Newark-upon-Trent, 1642–46

pp 40-54

Part II: - Medical care

pp 55-56

3 - A new kind of surgery for a new kind of war: Gunshot wounds and their treatment in the British Civil Wars

pp 57-77

4 - ‘Stout Skippon hath a wound’: The medical treatment of Parliament’s infantry commander following the battle of Naseby

pp 78-94

5 - ‘Dead Hogges, Dogges, Cats and well flayed Carryon Horses’: Royalist hospital provision during the First Civil War

pp 95-112

6 - Gerard’s <italic>Herball</italic> and the treatment of war-wounds and contagion during the English Civil War

pp 113-134

Part III: - The hidden human costs

pp 135-136

7 - The third army: Wandering soldiers and the negotiation of parliamentary authority, 1642–51

pp 137-155

8 - ‘The deep staines these Wars will leave behind’: Psychological wounds and curative methods in the English Civil Wars

pp 156-173

9 - The administration of military welfare in Kent, 1642–79

pp 174-191

10 - ‘To condole with me on the Commonwealth’s loss’: The widows and orphans of Parliament’s military commanders

pp 192-210

11 - ‘So necessarie and charitable a worke’: Welfare, identity and Scottish prisoners-of-war in England, 1650–55

pp 211-229

Conclusion

pp 230-233

Select bibliography

pp 234-238

Index

pp 239-247