Sleepless Souls : Suicide in Early Modern England
Author:   Michael MacDonald ,  Terence R. Murphy
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780198204503


Pages:   399
Publication Date:   01 November 1993
Format:   Paperback
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Sleepless Souls : Suicide in Early Modern England


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This social history of suicide in early modern England traces the rise and fall of the crime of self-murder and explores the reasons why suicide came to be harshly punished in the 16th century, yet was tolerated and even sentimentalized in the century following the English Revolution. The authors employ a wide range of records from the period between 1500 and 1800 in order to explain the profound changes in attitudes to suicide and responses to actual deaths. Their detailed examination of the changing meaning of self-destruction provides an illuminating perspective of the sweep of cultural and social change in England over three centuries.

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Author:   Michael MacDonald ,  Terence R. Murphy
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9780198204503


ISBN 10:   0198204507
Pages:   399
Publication Date:   01 November 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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