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Routledge
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.
Volume 1, Acknowledgements, General Introduction, Introduction, Literature, Ballads and Broadsides, Proverbs, Medicine, Books, Essays and Pamphlets, Sermons and Spirituality, Biography, Petitions and Legal Documents, Editorial Notes, Volume 2, Introduction, Literature, Ballads, Broadsides and Ephemera, Medicine and Prolongevity, Sermons, Editorial Notes, Volume 3, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Conduct Books, Letters and Personal Correspondence, Books, Essays and Pamphlets, Ballads and Pamphlets, Editorial Notes, Volume 4, Introduction, Literature and Essays, Ballads, Chapbooks and Broadsides, Legal Documents, Editorial Notes
Biography
Susannah R Ottaway
