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In the first episode of the BBC's adaptation of Wolf Hall, Thomas Cromwell returned home to find his wife and two daughters had all died during the night, victims of a pestilence – the "sweating...
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Contemporary accounts describe an illness that began with a general feeling that something was not right, a strange premonition of oncoming horror, followed by the onset of violent headache, flu-like shivers and aching limbs. This was succeeded by a raging fever complicated by pulse irregularities and cardiac palpitations. Death often simply seemed...
During the Tudor and early Elizabethan eras, the merest rumour of sweating sickness in a certain locality was enough to cause an exodus of those who could afford to leave. Thomas Le Forestier, a French doctor originally based in England, wrote about the 1485 sicknessafter his return to France, providing information about its appearance and impact d...
A minor academic industry has developed speculating on what sweating sickness could have been. Given that it had few symptoms other than a violent fatal fever, medical historians have had little to go on. But suggestions that have been made over the years include influenza, scarlet fever, anthrax, typhus or some SARS-like pulmonary enterovirus. All...
Aside from the similar clinical descriptions of sweating sickness and HPS, one other factor stands out in favour of their equivalence: rich people in Tudor times were more likely to be victims. The end of the Wars of the Roses meant that people at last felt safe to invest in property without the risk of it being immediately ransacked, and the disso...
Sweating sickness had disappeared by late Elizabethan times. Its reign of terror barely lasted a century. If indeed it was an ancient variant of HPS, we can perhaps speculate about what led to its demise. The virus may have mutated to a less virulent form, perhaps in the process acquiring the capacity to be passed between humans as a more benign fe...
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30 de abr. de 2024 · Thomas Cromwell (born c. 1485, Putney, near London—died July 28, 1540, probably London) was the principal adviser (1532–40) to England’s Henry VIII, chiefly responsible for establishing the Reformation in England, for the dissolution of the monasteries, and for strengthening the royal administration.
25 de mai. de 2024 · Edward Cromwell, the second grandson of Thomas Cromwell, tragically died at the age of 14. The cause of his death is unknown, but it was a significant loss for the family, particularly as he was the only other male heir at the time.
The Cromwell family is an English aristocratic family descended from Hugh de Cromwell who came to England with William the Conqueror. Its most famous members are: Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex; and, Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector.
Cromwell's wife died in 1529 and his daughters, Anne and Grace, are believed to have died not long after their mother. Their death may have been due to sweating sickness. Provisions made for Anne and Grace in Cromwell's will, dated 12 July 1529, were crossed out at some later date.
20 de mai. de 2020 · One day that summer, the sweating sickness kills Cromwell’s wife, Liz: he comes home to find her corpse on the bed, her jaw bound with linen, the whole house smelling like burning herbs.
