The History of Old Age in England, 1600-1800, Part II

by Susannah R Ottaway

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851968709
• ISBN13: 9781851968701
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 1584 Pages