Sleepless souls : suicide in early modern England / Michael MacDonald, Terence R. Murphy.

Suicide was regarded as a deplorable act, subject to savage punishments, in Tudor and Stuart England. In Georgian England it was de-criminalized, tolerated, and even sentimentalized. Drawing on a wide variety of contemporary sources, Sleepless Souls traces the causes of this dramatic shift in attitu...

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Main Author:	MacDonald, Michael, 1945-
Other Authors:	Murphy, Terence R.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Clarendon, 1990.
Series:	Oxford studies in social history.
Subjects:	Suicide > England > History. England > Social conditions.
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