The History of Old Age in England, 1600-1800, Part I Vol 1


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What did it mean to be old in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England? This eight-volume edition brings together selections from medical treatises, sermons, legal documents, parish records, almshouse accounts, private letters, diaries and ballads, to investigate cultural and medical understanding of old age in pre-industrial England.







Old Age and the English Poor Law, 1500-1700


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Based on documents from two Suffolk villages, this study examines the operation of the poor law and the individual effort the elderly poor needed to make to survive.













Immortality


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Genesis-Judges


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