Sleepless souls : suicide in early modern England
MacDonald, Michael, 1945-1993
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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 romanticized in the century following the English Revolution.
Main title:
Sleepless souls : suicide in early modern England / Michael MacDonald, Terence R. Murphy.
Imprint:
Oxford : Clarendon, 1990 (1993 [printing])
Collation:
xvi,383p. : ill. ; 22cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Includes bibliography and index.
ISBN:
9780198204503 (pbk)
Dewey class:
362.20942364.1522
Language:
English
BRN:
55030
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