{"id":217172,"date":"2010-01-07T08:51:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T13:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds2.feedburner.com:\/\/2844074d521ab6047642806d19bcaeb9"},"modified":"2010-01-07T08:51:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T13:51:51","slug":"was-the-tudor-period-a-time-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217172","title":{"rendered":"Was The Tudor Period A Time Of Peace?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, it was not \u2013 it was actually a time of great political turbulence with many wars.<br \/>\nOne of the worst jobs to have in Tudor times was that of a soldier who had to fight in wars. Many fought in battles that were part of a long series of wars between 1562 and 1598. <\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q2\/q23\/q235\/q2353\/q235307_72895_224_538933708_d6c18f06a2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/css\/common\/cc.png\" style=\"vertical-align:text-bottom;width:16px;height:16px;border:0;\" title=\"Creative Commons License\"\/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/17384453@N00\/\" >Jule_Berlin<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>By the mid 16th century, soldiers had to face guns and muskets as well as swords, arrows, pikes and axes. The injuries were horrendous and the treatment was not really very useful. Limbs were often damaged. Battlefield was filthy and antiseptics were not available. This meant that limbs damaged in battle usually became infected and had to be amputated. <\/p>\n<p>Amputation was a very nasty business. Several people had to hold the soldier down. Even though he was given a whack on the head from the surgeon&#8217;s mallet to knock him out, he would have suffered tremendous pain. Few survived long after this ordeal.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Blurtit\/~4\/ITkLpV1V4Hs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it was not \u2013 it was actually a time of great political turbulence with many wars. One of the worst jobs to have in Tudor times was that of a soldier who had to fight in wars. Many fought in battles that were part of a long series of wars between 1562 and 1598. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}