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Old Age and the English Poor Law, 1500-1700

By Botelho, L. A.

Old Age and the English Poor Law, 1500-1700 Books

Old Age and the English Poor Law, 1500-1700

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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 it intend to, provide complete support, and she documents the individual efforts of the poor as they made their own old age arrangements, drawing as heavily upon their own initiatives as upon charity and legislated relief. LYNN BOTELHO is Associate Professor of History, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
210
Release Date:
2004-12-30
Publication Date:
2004-11-30
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1843830949
ISBN13:
9781843830948
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[email protected]
Weight:
485 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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