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Sleepless Souls - Suicide in Early Modern England

By Michael Macdonald

Sleepless Souls - Suicide in Early Modern England

By Michael Macdonald

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Sleepless Souls is a social and cultural history of suicide in early modern England. It traces the rise and fall of the crime of self-murder and explores why suicide came to be harshly punished in the sixteenth century, and why it was subsequently gradually decriminalized, tolerated, and even sentimentalized. It is a readable, detailed, and scholarly examination of the changing meaning of self-destruction, which provides an illuminating perspective of the sweep of cultural and social change in England over three centuries.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
400
Release Date:
1991-01-17
Publication Date:
1990-11-29
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198229194
ISBN13:
9780198229193
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
694 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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