Old Age and the English Poor Law, 1500-1700

by L.A. Botelho

This study is a test-case of the old poor law. In its exploration of the virtually unknown world of the aged poor in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, it asks how the elderly poor managed to survive in a pre-industrial economy, and answers through focusing on the many factors that make up the experience of old age - status, health, wealth, and local culture - in two Suffolk villages. Botelho demonstrates that the poor law did not, nor did...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843830949
• ISBN13: 9781843830948
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"