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Sleepless Souls: Suicide in Early Modern England (Oxford Studies in Social History)
Sleepless Souls Suicide in Early Modern England - Oxford Studies in Social History
Author: Michael MacDonald, Terence R. Murphy
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 the reasons why suicide came to be harshly punished in the sixteenth century, and why it was gradually decriminalized in the century and a half following the English Revolution. Michael MacDona...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780198229193
ISBN-10: 0198229194
Publication Date: 1/17/1991
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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