Punishing the dead? : suicide, lordship, and community in Britain, 1500-1830

Punishing the dead? : suicide, lordship, and community in Britain, 1500-1830 / R.A. Houston.

An original work that shows how treatments of and attitudes towards suicide can illuminate our understanding of the social, political, and cultural history of early modern Britain.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Houston, R. A. (Robert Allan), 1954-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Oxford historical monographs.
Subjects:
1600-1799
Suicide > Social aspects > Great Britain > History.
Medicine > History > 17th century.
Medicine > History > 18th century.
PSYCHOLOGY > Suicide.
Medicine
Suicide > Social aspects
Great Britain
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Forfeiture in Scotland
  • Forfeiture in England and Wales
  • Burial practices
  • Corporal punishment
  • Conclusion to Part 1
  • The secularization of suicide
  • Newspapers and public opinion : neutralizing suicide?

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