Tudor Sweat

In the summer of 1485, a terrifying new disease arrived in England. It struck with unimaginable speed: a victim could be perfectly healthy at breakfast and dead from severe, foul-smelling sweats by dinner. It did not target the poor in crowded slums, but rather the wealthy, the strong, and the aristocratic. It was known as the English Sweating Sickness. The Tudor Sweat dives into one of the grea...